"Obscurity in affection of words and indigested conceits is pedantical and childish."

"Use makes things nothing huge, and huge things nothing."

"None ever loved but at first sight they loved."

"Berenice's ever-burning hair."

"O incredulity! the wit of fools, That slovenly will spit on all things fair, The coward’s castle, and the sluggard’s …"

"Love is a golden bubble, full of dreams, That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes."

"And let a scholar all Earth’s volumes carry, He will be but a walking dictionary."

"For your behaviour, let it be free and negligent, not clogged with ceremony or observance; give no man honour, but up…"

"We have watered our houses in Helicon."

"Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'."