Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.

The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late

Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you can polish it highly, you can even flatten it a little on one side, whereby you will make it bulge out the other, but you will NEVER, while the world endures and man is man, increase its total circumference.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king's beer, and be numbered amongst the king's wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased to give her to me.

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.