Patriotism is the religion of hell.
The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.
Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.
There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.