Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.