Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.