“How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.”

“people can die of mere imagination”

“the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people”

“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”

“The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.”

“If gold rusts, what then can iron do?”

“No empty handed man can lure a bird”