He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.

Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.