Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.