Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.
Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame
Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.