Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

Mankind is unamendable.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.