For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.

How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.