Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.

How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.

If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.