“Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!-Posthumus LeonatusAct V, Scene V”

“The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.”

“The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”