Prevent your day at morning.

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.

Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.

Reader look, not on his picture but his book.