antithesis quotes

   Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed!† The true antithesisto knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.

-Johnny (John Christopher) Depp
  Letters to aYoungMan whose Education has been Neglected, no.3, in the London Magazine,  Jan^  Jul.

And he himself one vile antithesis.

- Alexander Pope
  Of Lord Hervey.'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.325.