“Words are doctors for the diseased temper.”

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

“There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.”

“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.”

“In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain”