The eye is easily frightened.

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.