Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John Denham

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
John Denham

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
John Denham

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
John Denham

We are never like angels till our passion dies.
John Denham

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
John Denham