Genius involves both envy and calumny.

Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

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.