I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

He made all countries where he came his own.

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.

Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.

He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.