Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
Man and wife make one fool.
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.
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .