In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.
The law of heaven and earth is life for life.
The best prophet of the future is the past.
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.