Great Throughts Treasury

"That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view."

"The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit."

"The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius."

"The Sixth Satire of Persius, translated by John Dryden. From: The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Containing All His Original Poems, Tales and Translations, Volume 4 (1760), p. 407."

"Things fit only to give weight to smoke."

"The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears ? not tears that have been got ready overnight."

"Though thy face is glossed with specious art thou retainest the cunning fox beneath thy vapid breast."

"Thou art moist and soft clay; thou must instantly be shaped by the glowing wheel."

"When another day has arrived, we will find that we have consumed our yesterday's to-morrow; another morrow will urge on our years, and still be a little beyond us."

"Who?ll read that sort of thing?"

"To be pointed out with the finger."

"You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class)."

"You are too sarcastic."

"Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it."

"Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first."