It may mean that
he talks sensibly while he acts foolishly. We may
have a mind, but a narrow one. A mind may be
fitted for some things, not for others. We may have
a large measure of mind fitted for nothing, and one is
often inconvenienced with much mind; still of this
kind of mind we may say that it is sometimes pleasing
in society.
Though the gifts of the mind are infinite, they can,
it seems to me, be thus classified.
There are some so beautiful that everyone can see
and feel their beauty.
There are some lovely, it is true, but which are
wearisome.
There are some which are lovely, which all the
world admire, but without knowing why.
There are some so refined and delicate that few are
capable even of remarking all their beauties.
There are others which, though imperfect, yet are
produced with such skill, and sustained and managed
with such sense and grace, that they even deserve to
be admired.
III. On Taste.
Some persons have more wit than taste, others have
more taste than wit.
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