The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.

O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.

Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.