He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.

Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.