For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.
Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.
A thing well said will be wit in all languages.
Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.
Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.
All, all of a piece throughout; / Thy chase had a beast in view; / Thy wars brought nothing about; / Thy lovers were all untrue. / 'Tis well an old age is out, / And time to begin a new.
I am as free as nature first made man, / Ere the base laws of servitude began, / When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
And, wide as his command, / Scattered his Maker's image through the land.
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it to some particular studies
Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new.
For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love, but on the stage