I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.

Deathless laurel is the victor's due.

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.