Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!