"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." — Samuel Johnson

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.