The royal crown cures not the headache. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
There is no royal path which leads to geometry. [ Euclid ]
A royal heart is often hid under a tattered coat. [ Danish Proverb ]
So work the honey-bees;
Creatures, that by a rule in nature teach
The art of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they, with merry march, bring home.
To the tent royal of their emperor;
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate;
The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum.
Delivering over to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone. [ William Shakespeare ]
Liberty is majesty, more royal even than royalty itself! [ E. P. Day ]
Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil. [ Wendell Phillips ]
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. [ Holmes ]
Poetry is the robe, the royal apparel, in which truth asserts its divine origin. [ Beecher ]
A royal court without women is like a year without spring, a spring without flowers. [ Francis I. of France ]
Poetry is right royal. It puts the individual for the species, the one above the infinite many. [ Hazlitt ]
The royal navy of England has ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. [ Sir Wm. Blackstone ]
Venerable to me is the hard hand, - crooked, coarse, - wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet. [ Carlyle ]
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures. [ J. G. Holland ]
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living; he who trains us to see old truth under academic formularies may be wise or not, as it chances, but we love to see wisdom in unpretending forms, to recognise her royal features under a week-day vesture. [ Carlyle ]
We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference. [ Leigh Hunt ]