... the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.

Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

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.