Not to ask is not be denied.

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.

All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.