The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.