The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
