Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.
He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.
Freely we serve, because freely we love.
Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.