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

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

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

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

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