I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.