To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
The man without a navel still lives in me.
I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.