If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know and not be known, live in a city.
—Colton.
No man is inspired by the occasion; I never was.
—Webster.
(Does stress fall upon “I,” or upon “never”?)
In men whom men condemn as ill,
I find so much of goodness still;
In men whom men account divine,
I find so much of sin and blot,
I hesitate to draw the line between the two,