Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.

If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

A first impulse was never a crime.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.