Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.