His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.