The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

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.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

There is a majesty in simplicity.