Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.