There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

I am then never less alone than when alone

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.