The proud man is forsaken of God.

Love is a severe mental disorder.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.