I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
They live too long who happiness outlive.
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.