As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.