John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby quotes

Read Homer once, and you can read no more;
For all books else appear so mean, so poor,
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need. (John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby)

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

There's no such thing in Nature; and you'll draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw.

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby