“The King governs by Law. Let us look back to the evils we had, in order to prevent more. We give public money, and must see that it goes to public use.”

Urging constitutional restraint and fiscal responsibility · Speech in Parliament (1675)

• Law
• Politics
• Responsibility

“Poets, sir, succeed better in fiction than in truth.”

A witty explanation for why his panegyric on Cromwell was judged better than his later praise of the king · Conversation with Charles II, as reported in anecdotal biographies

• Fiction
• Truth
• Wit