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.

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.