Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.