Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

Order is heaven's first law.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.