Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.