If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

He who's never loved cannot be good.

He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.

Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.