“In night when colours all to black are cast,Distinction lost, or gone down with the light;The eye — a watch to inward senses placed,Not seeing, yet still having power of sight —Gives vain alarums to the inward sense.”Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke CI. Caelica (1633)
“Oh wearisome Condition of Humanity!Born under one law, to another bound:Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity,Created sick, commanded to be sound:What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws?Passion and reason, self-division cause.Is it the mark, or Majesty of PowerTo make offences that it may forgive?”Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Chorus Sacerdotum. Mustapha (1609)
“Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?”Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke