Take away the sword;
States can be saved without it.
Richelieu, Act ii. Sc. 2. E. BULWER-LYTTON.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest:
For then both parties nobly are subdued,
And neither party loser.
King Henry IV., Pt. II. Act iv. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
His helmet now shall make a hive for bees,
And lover's sonnets turned to holy psalms;
A man at arms must now serve on his knees,
And feed on prayers, which are his age's alms.
Polyhymnia. G. PEELE.
Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
Night Thoughts, Night V. DR. E. YOUNG.
Till each man finds his own in all men's good,
And all men work in noble brotherhood,
Breaking their mailèd fleets and armèd towers,
And ruling by obeying Nature's powers,
And gathering all the fruits of peace and crowned with all her flowers.
Ode, sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition.
A. TENNYSON.
PEN.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Richelieu, Act ii. Sc 3. E. BULWER-LYTTON.
The feather, whence the pen
Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,
Dropped from an Angel's wing.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Pt. III., v. Walton's Book of Lives.
W. WORDSWORTH.
Whose noble praise
Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing.
Sonnet. DOROTHY BERRY.
You still shall live—such virtue hath my pen,
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
Sonnet, LXXXI. SHAKESPEARE.