“When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the…”

“They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better…”

“Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.”

“Words are women, deeds are men.”

“Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.”

“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,-- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”