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.

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.