"Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion.

I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

The will to do, the soul to dare..

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.