That ready wit, which you so partially allow me, … may create many admirers; but, take my word for it, it makes few friends. It shines and dazzles like the noonday sun, but, like that, too, it is very apt to scorch, and therefore is always feared. The milder morning
Streets full of water; please advise.
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Because he once wrote, “We must love one another or die,” he can command me to follow him.
We must love one another or die.
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.