Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.

Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.

Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.

Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.