So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Dante’s Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.

The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.

...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.

A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.