It Is The Vice Of Scholars To

The True Barbarian Is He Who Thinks Everything Barbarous But His Own Tastes And Prejudices.

The Essence Of Poetry Is Will And Passion.

Humour Is The Making Others Act Or Talk Absurdly And Unconsciously; Wit Is The Pointing Out And Ridiculing That Absurdity Consciously, And With More Or Less Ill-nature.

When The Imagination Is Continually Led To The Brink Of Vice By A System Of Terror And Denunciations, People Fling Themselves Over The Precipice From The Mere Dread Of Falling.

Vice Is Man's Nature: Virtue Is A Habit--or A Mask.