A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
“I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.”
“That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.”