Envy is littleness of soul.

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.