It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.