"Yours is a soul irregularly great,
Which, wanting temper, yet abounds in heat."
"Forgiveness to the injured does belong,
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong."
"Poor women's thoughts are all extempore."
"The cause of love can never be assigned,
'T is in no face, but in the lover's mind."[66]
"Heaven can forgive a crime to penitence,
For Heaven can judge if penitence be true;
But man, who knows not hearts, should make examples."
"Kings' titles commonly begin by force,
Which time wears off and mellows into right."
"Fear's a large promiser; who subject live
To that base passion, know not what they give."
"The secret pleasure of the generous act
Is the great mind's great bribe."
"That bad thing, gold, buys all good things."
"Why, love does all that's noble here below."