Neutral men are the devil's allies.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.