It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.