A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.