When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

A good life is a main argument.

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.