Top 3 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.

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

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