No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.
Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.
I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.