Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

I am happy in my prison of passion

A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.