Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.

Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.