I awoke one day to find myself famous.

Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

One hates an author that's all author.

To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.