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,