Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

Reader look, not on his picture but his book.