"I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that reason infallibly be faulty."

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it may, I'll go to it laughing."

"Swerve me?The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run."

"What I've dared, I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do!"

"What is said in heat, that thing unsays itself, There are men from whom warm words are small indignity."

"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. "

"If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white...

"Not by beef or bread, are giants made or nourished."

"Who has but once dined his friends, has tasted what it is to be Caesar."

​"Such large virtue lurks in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to...