The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.