A poet is a painter of the soul.
Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.
If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.