Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.