Related:

• Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice,--almighty gold.
  -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland...
• Courses even with the sun Doth her mighty brother run.
  -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- The Gipsies Metamorphosed...
• 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.
  -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Bussy D'Ambois, Act i, Sc. 1...
• Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse,-- Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother.
  Death, ere thou hast slain another, Learn'd and fair and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee....
• Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all?
  Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty....
• O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualitie
  For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give, Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse...
• But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
  -- D. H. Lawrence...
• Ben Jonso
• Woman: It's brilliant: savagely honest, tender...he has the soul of a poet.
  Barney: You're very kind. Woman: Excuse me, did something crawl down your throat and die?...