The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.
When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.