Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.

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

Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.