Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.