William Davenant

“Success is the child of audacity.”

“Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.”

“Luxury is a single, rusty nail, which if you draw, all the building tumbles.”

“For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.”

“For what is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.”

“War is the trade of Kings.”

“He that will not be counselled, cannot be helped.”

“The chamber of the sick is the chapel of the temple of temperance.”

“Wit is the soul's powder.”

“Wake all the dead! what ho! what ho! How soundly they sleep whose pillows lie low.”

“For lust of power, for lust of gold, for lust of praise, for lust of strife, We follow Mammon, and grow old, And die, the dupes of life.”

“Law, grown a forest, where the wise and good can't find their way.”

“Th' assembled souls of all that men held wise.”