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.
The way to rise is to obey and please.
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.