An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
News as wholesome as the morning air.