"A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits."

"I come to tell you this, and to advise you to shut the gates of your gardens forthwith, and to cease the harangues of…"

"Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur."

"If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows."

"This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords."

"A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge."

"Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers."

"Temple was a man of the world among men of letters, a man of letters among men of the world."

"Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima."

"Translated: "Most learned of the fair; fairest of the learned"."