Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle vi. Book i. To Mr. Murray.

Vain was the chief's the sage's pride!

They had no poet, and they died.

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Odes. Book iv. Ode 9.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:

God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.

Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton.

Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time,

And make two lovers happy.

Martinus Scriblerus on the Art of Sinking in Poetry. Chap. xi.