To Make Converts Is The Natural Ambition

The Confidant Of My Vices Is My Master, Though He Were My Valet.

There Is Nothing By Which Men Display Their Character So Much As In What They Consider Ridiculous... Fools And Sensible Men Are Equally Innocuous. It Is In The Half Fools And The Half Wise That The Great Danger Lies.

All Of Us Have Life; Few Of Us Have An Idea Of It.

And Those Whom Once My Song Had Cheered And Gladdened, If Still They Live, Rove Through The World Now Saddened.

And Here, Poor Fool, With All My Lore I Stand No Wiser Than Before.