So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. German writer and polymath (1749–1832) Balance
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.