Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
We love justice greatly, and just men but little.
The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.