Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.

Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.