"Com més vell més poc cervell."

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

"Humane nature I always thought the most useful object of humane reason, and to make the consideration of it pleasant …"

"Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends."

"'Tis fixed, the irrevocable doom of Jove; No force can bend me, no persuasion move."

"Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie."

"They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake."

"Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground."

"Of all his works he was most proud of his garden."

"A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicat…"