That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.

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

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

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

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.