What is done is done; has already blended itself with the boundless, ever-living, ever-working universe, and will also work there, for good or evil, openly or secretly, through all time. Carlyle.
What is everybody's business is nobody's business. Izaak Walton.
What is excellent should never be carped at nor discussed, but enjoyed and reverentially thought over in silence. Goethe.
What is extraordinary try to look at with your 10 own eyes. Old maxim.
What is false taste but want of perception to discern propriety and distinguish beauty? Goldsmith.
What is generally accepted as virtue in women is very different from what is thought so in men: a very good woman would make but a paltry man. Pope.
What is generally considered true amounts to much the same as if it were actually true. Cötvös.
What is genius or courage without a heart? Goldsmith.
What is genuine but that which is truly excellent, 15 which stands in harmony with the purest nature or reason, and which even now ministers to our highest development! What is spurious but the absurd and the hollow, which brings no fruit—at least, no good fruit. Goethe.
What is gray with age becomes religion. Schiller.