Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

Whatever interests is interesting.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.