Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.