Swift Was The Race, But Short The

For Secrets Are Edged Tools, And Must Be Kept From Children And From Fools.

When I Consider Life, It Is All A Cheat. Yet Fooled With Hope, People Favor This Deceit.

Since A True Knowledge Of Nature Gives Us Pleasure, A Lively Imitation Of It, Either In Poetry Or Painting, Must Produce A Much Greater; For Both These Arts Are Not Only True Imitations Of Nature, But Of The Best Nature.

When Misfortune Is Asleep, Let No One Wake Her.

The Longest Tyranny That Ever Sway'd Was That Wherein Our Ancestors Betray'd Their Free-born Reason To The Stagirite [aristotle], And Made His Torch Their Universal Light. So Truth, While Only One Suppli'd The State, Grew Scarce, And Dear, And Yet Sophisticate.