All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
The world's a scene of changes.