Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third - ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] - may profit by their example. If this be treason,…

Ces deux moities de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur!

My so-called foreign friends do neither me nor the situation nor themselves any good when they try to bring me into opposition to the allegedly impossible Nati…