“Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no…”

“I, who have so much and so universally adored this ariston metron, "excellent mediocrity," of ancient times, and…”

“What 's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?”

“If you have writ your annals true, 't is there That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I…”

“Vio. A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the…”

“And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill.”