But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.
The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
To be a man is to be a nonconformist.
Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.