There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.