To have the power to forgive,
Is empire and prerogative,
And 'tis in crowns a nobler gem,
To grant a pardon than condemn. [ Butler ]

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [ Rochefoucauld ]

It is, alas! the poor prerogative of greatness, to be wretched and unpitied. [ Congreve ]

It is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge, that what it gains it never loses. [ Daniel Webster ]

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood. [ Wieland ]

The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties. [ Charles I. of England ]

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds. [ Colton ]

As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may more properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame. [ Sterne ]