A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
What will a child learn sooner than a song?
And make each day a critic on the last.