“True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.”

“Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark…”

“Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.”

“But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured,…”

“All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord,…”

“Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn…”