You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

More from Oliver Cromwell

• None climbs so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
• Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
• 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
• A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder: Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!