Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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.
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .