All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.
Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.