Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor, and to love your neighbor's wife