Merit challenges envy.
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
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.
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.