Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.
If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.
Man is free the moment he wants to be.
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.