Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.