The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.

The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.

Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.