Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome