Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.