But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.