What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
The villain's censure is extorted praise.
A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.