Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

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

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.