Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?
Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.
There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.