The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.