"I am perfectly willing to share the room with a fly, as long as he is patrolling that portion of the room I don't occ…"

"He is an extraordinary animal is the house fly. Go where you will you find him, and so it must have been always. I ha…"

"God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why."

"Everything was giant-sized, as if I were looking through binoculars. "I" was walking up giant stalks. At first I didn…"

"Flies enter an open mouth."

"Oh! that the memories, which survive us here, Were half so lovely as these wings of thine! Pure relics of a blameless…"

"We see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb."

"It was prettily devised of Æsop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise!"

"We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming o…"

"Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas."