Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.

I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.