"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…"

"King James said to the fly, "Have I three kingdoms, and thou must needs fly into my eye?""

"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…"