Richard Bentley Quotes

English classical scholar, critic and theologian and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1662–1742)

Richard Bentley (January 27, 1662 – July 14, 1742) was an English theologian, classical scholar and critic.

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“Whatever is, is not,” is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.

It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope; but you must not call it Homer.

The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms.