How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
Enough is abundance to the wise.
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.
Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.
Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.
Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.