It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. Montaigne.
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common ways of mankind. Johnson.
It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers; but to act with wisdom, there's the rub. Rivarole.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Emerson.
It is easy to be a spendthrift with other people's 25 property. Platen.
It is easy to condemn; it is better to pity. Abbott.
It is easy to criticise an author, but it is difficult to appreciate him. Vauvenargues.
It is easy to give offence, though it is hard to appease. Grillparzer.
It is easy to open a shop, but hard to keep it open. Chinese Pr.
It is easy to screw one's self up into high and 30 ever higher altitudes of Transcendentalism, and see nothing under one but the everlasting snows of Himalaya, the earth shrinking into a planet, and the indigo firmament sowing itself with daylight stars; but whither does it lead? One dreads always to inanity and mere injuring of the lungs. Carlyle to Emerson.