“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”
“They also serve who only stand and wait.”
“Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.”
“Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.”
“None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.”
“How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!”
“But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.”
“Reason also is choice.”
“Tears such as angels weep.”
“Virtue that wavers is not virtue.”
“Lords are lordliest in their wine.”
“Fear of change perplexes monarchs.”
“With thee conversing I forget all time.”
“Where no hope is left, is left no fear.”
“License they mean when they cry liberty.”
“A short retirement urges a sweet return.”
“Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.”
“Our country is where ever we are well off.”
“Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.”
“Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.”
“Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.”
“A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.”
“Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.”
“The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.”
“Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.”
“Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.”
“Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.”
“Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.”
“Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.”