O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!.

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins..

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace..

Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin t….

Reader look, not on his picture but his book..

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not..

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master..

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak..

Calumnies are answered best with silence..

A good life is a main argument..

Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends..

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat..

He was not of an age, but for all time!.

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome.

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my acti….

Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?.

Let argument bear no unmusical sound..

Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth..

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of th….

I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; le….

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man..