“It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to…”

“As if Misfortune made the throne her seat, And none could be unhappy but the great.”

“Or where the pictures for the page atone, And Quarles is sav'd by beauties not his own.”

“Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man.”

“He [Molière] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.”

“Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all.”