Quotes from George Chapman

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.

Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

News as wholesome as the morning air.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.

Love is Natures second sun.

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

Love is nature's second son.

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.