The common-place critic . . . believes that truth lies in the middle, between the extremes of right and wrong. - William Hazlitt

Grace is rhwe absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incogruity.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

But fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath — tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.