A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.