A Brave Man Scorns To Quarrel Once

Mere Poets Are Sottish As Mere Drunkards Are, Who Live In A Continual Mist, Without Seeing Or Judging Anything Clearly. A Man Should Be Learned In Several Sciences, And Should Have A Reasonable, Philosophical And In Some Measure A Mathematical Head, To Be A Complete And Excellent Poet.

Virtue In Distress, And Vice In Triumph Make Atheists Of Mankind.

Men's Virtues I Have Commended As Freely As I Have Taxed Their Crimes.

Chaucer Followed Nature Everywhere, But Was Never So Bold To Go Beyond Her.

He Made All Countries Where He Came His Own.