"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human integrity has been ruined by the fall, and that I am a member of the ruined species."

"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."

"The secret of a poem, no less than a jest's prosperity, lies in the ear of him that hears it."

"The highest intellect is but a shadow of the lowest intuition."

"If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."