I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

Hushed as midnight silence.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.