The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?

Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.