When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.