Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

We disjoint the mind like the body.

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

The breath of the mind is attention.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.