Our whole life is like a play.
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.