Books wind into the heart.
Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.