Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.