Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

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.

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.