The solemn fog; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.

Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.