A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.