Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.