Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.