Royalty is a fine burial shroud..

For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile..

It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing ….

Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu!.

I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad..

For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre..