To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

A good king is a public servant.

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.