Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.
The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.