Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.