All delays are dangerous in war.
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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.
Few know the use of life before 'tis past.