All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!

War is the trade of kings.