Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
Politicians neither love nor hate.
A thing well said will be wit in all languages.
To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.