Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

My hours are peaceful centuries.

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.