Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.

Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.