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.

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

Reader look, not on his picture but his book.

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

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