A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
There's no sin but stupidity.
The only sin is stupidity.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Biography lends to death a new terror.