"No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows."

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 273.

"Quoth she, I 've heard old cunning stagers Say fools for arguments use wagers."

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 297.

"Love in your hearts as idly burns As fire in antique Roman urns."

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 309.

"For what is worth in anything But so much money as 't will bring?"

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 465.

"Love is a boy by poets styl'd; Then spare the rod and spoil the child."

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 843.

"The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn."

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 29.

"Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing."

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 79.

"For truth is precious and divine,-- Too rich a pearl for carnal swine."

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 257.

"Why should not conscience have vacation As well as other courts o' th' nation?"

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 317.

"He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for convenience takes it; Then how can any man be said To break an oath he never made?"

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 377.

"As the ancients Say wisely, have a care o' th' main chance, And look before you ere you leap; For as you sow, ye are like to reap."

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 501.

"Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat."

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1.

"He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no."

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 261.

"Each window like a pill'ry appears, With heads thrust thro' nail'd by the ears."

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 391.

"To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd, And count their chickens ere they 're hatch'd."

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 923.

"There 's but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war."

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 957.

"But Hudibras gave him a twitch As quick as lightning in the breech, Just in the place where honour 's lodg'd, As wise philosophers have judg'd; Because a kick in that part more Hurts honour than deep wounds before."

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1065.

"As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon 't."

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 481.

"Still amorous and fond and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling."

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 687.

"What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again? Two hundred more."

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1277.

"'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin; And therefore no true saint allows They shall be suffer'd to espouse."

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1293.

"Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick, Though he gave his name to our Old Nick."

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1313.

"With crosses, relics, crucifixes, Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes,-- The tools of working our salvation By mere mechanic operation."

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1495.

"True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon."

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto ii. Line 175.

"But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease."

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto ii. Line 443.

"For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain."

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto iii. Line 243.

"He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still."

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto iii. Line 547.

"With books and money plac'd for show Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay."

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto iii. Line 624.

"And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do, To make a poet excellent, But only want and discontent."

Fragments.

"The assembled souls of all that men held wise."

Gondibert. Book ii. Canto v. Stanza 37.

"Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know."

The Just Italian. Act v. Sc. 1.

"For angling-rod he took a sturdy oake; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke; His hooke was such as heads the end of pole To pluck down house ere fire consumes it whole; The hook was baited with a dragon's tale,-- And then on rock he stood to bob for whale."

Britannia Triumphans. Page 15. 1637.

"Too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth."

Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. vi.

"Rich with the spoils of Nature."

Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. xiii.

"Nature is the art of God."

Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. xvi.

"The thousand doors that lead to death."

Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. xliv.

"The heart of man is the place the Devil 's in: I feel sometimes a hell within myself."

Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. li.

"There is no road or ready way to virtue."

Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. lv.

"It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of faces there should be none alike."

Religio Medici. Part ii. Sect. ii.

"There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres."

Religio Medici. Part ii. Sect. ix.

"Sleep is a death; oh, make me try By sleeping what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave as now my bed!"

Religio Medici. Part ii. Sect. xii.

"Ruat coelum, fiat voluntas tua."

Religio Medici. Part ii. Sect. xii.

"Times before you, when even living men were antiquities,--when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number."

Dedication to Urn-Burial.

"I look upon you as gem of the old rock."

Dedication to Urn-Burial.

"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave."

Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v.

"Quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests."

Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v.

"Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it."

Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v.

"What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women."

Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v.

"When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose."

Vulgar Errors.

"The yielding marble of her snowy breast."

On a Lady passing through a Crowd of People.