It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.

The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?