Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.