Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

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.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

The first mark of valor is defence.

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 is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.