Genius Must Be Born, It Can't Be

Virtue Without Success Is A Fair Picture Shown By An Ill Light; But Lucky Men Are Favorites Of Heaven; All Own The Chief, When Fortune Owns The Cause.

For All Have Not The Gift Of Martyrdom.

We First Make Our Habits, And Then Our Habits Make Us.

I Maintain, Against The Enemies Of The Stage, That Patterns Of Piety, Decently Represented, May Second The Precepts.

Chaucer Followed Nature Everywhere, But Was Never So Bold To Go Beyond Her.