With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.
Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.
He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.