“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”
“Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.”
“Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.”
“Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.”
“Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.”
“We are never like angels till our passion dies.”