Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.