Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
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Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Get pleasure out of life…as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.