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

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.