A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

On the coastal areas pterosaur predominate and birds were exceedingly rare.

Order is heaven's first law.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.