Take away the sword; — Pens

"For what made that in glory shine so long But poets Pens, pluckt from Archangels wings?"

"While the language of the lips is fleeting as the breath itself, and confined to a single spot as well as to a single moment, the language of the pen enjoys, in many instances, an adamantine existence, and will only perish amid the ruins of the globe. Before its mighty touch time and space become annihilated; it joins epoch to epoch, and pole to pole.[…] But for this, everything would be doubt, and darkness, and death-shade; all knowledge would be traditionary and all experience local; civilized life would relapse into barbarism, and man would have to run through his little, and comparatively insignificant round of existence, the perpetual sport of ignorance and error, uninstructed by science, unregulated by laws, and unconsoled by Revelation."

"The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done."

"Quon me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, jy trouverai de quoi le faire pendre."

"Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant."

"Art thou a pen, whose task shall be To drown in ink What writers think? Oh, wisely write, That pages white Be not the worse for ink and thee."