"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel."

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

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