Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.