Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

The villain's censure is extorted praise.