Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.

Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.

A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

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.

Thinking nurseth thinking.