Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.