"The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde."

"I had a heavy heart and an ugly head, a kind of impostume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of."

"I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."

"All my joys to this are folly Naught so sweet as melancholy."

"Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses."

"It is most true, stylus virum arguit,—our style bewrays us."

"I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones."

"If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled."

"We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer... Our story-dressers do as much; he that come…"

"I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling."