God himself helps those who dare.

Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.