The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

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.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?