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• Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had.
  (Said of Marlowe.) -- Michael Drayton (1563-1631) -- To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy...
• The coast was clear. -- Michael Drayton (1563-1631) -- Nymphidia
• It's only by NOT taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess.
  -- Roger Noe...
• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner.
  -- Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) -- Defence of Poesy...
• A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
  It is right it should be so; Man was made for Joy and Woe...
• The true object of education should be to train one to think clearly and act rightly.