“A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.”

“The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there beDoth dwell.”

“The obligation d'âme meant that his only allegiance was to Felix, making them a separate kingdom of two, with Felix as king and Mildmay as ministers, army, and populace all combined in one. A stormy little kingdom, I thought, with periodic flare-ups of civil war and a magnificently unstable government. And I was glad I wasn’t a citizen of it.”

“It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.”

“I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.”

“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.”