O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling.

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.