The laughers are a majority.
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.