Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need

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.

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!