“For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.”

“Death is softer by far than tyranny.”

“Words are doctors for the diseased temper.”

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”

“CLYTEMNESTRAWhat ails thee, raising this ado for us?SLAVEI say the dead are come to slay the living.”

“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.”

“At home there tarries like a lurking snake, Biding its time, a wrath unreconciled, A wily watcher, passionate to slake, In blood, resentment for a murdered child.”