"Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or dis..."
- William Hazlitt
"The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote."
"the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!"
"The path of genius is free, and its own"
"Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our"
"He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies."
"The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors."
"The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest t..."
"Words are the only things that last for ever."
"The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy."