Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.

So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.

By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.