Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
The present is all the ready money Fate can give.