How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.
The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.