A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.