There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

What I must do is all that concerns me,.

Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.