The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

Poets are far rarer birds than kings.

Let argument bear no unmusical sound.

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.

That old bald cheater, Time.