The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.