"Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence."

"Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil."

"Though fall'n on evil days, on evil days though fall'n, and with laborious steps pursue my destined way."

"For indeed none can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license; which never hath more scope or more indulgence than under Tyrants."

"He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king."