Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
Learn to write well, or not to write at all.
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.