Even victors are by victories undone.
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
My love's a noble madness.
Hushed as midnight silence.
They that possess the prince possess the laws.