Genius creates, and taste preserves.
Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.