The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.