Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure