No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.