Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
Learn to write well, or not to write at all.
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.