Successful crimes alone are justified.
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.
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.