It Must Be So, Plato, Thou Reason'st

The Most Violent Appetites In All Creatures Are Lust And Hunger; The First Is A Perpetual Call Upon Them To Propagate Their Kind, The Latter To Preserve Themselves.

What Can That Man Fear Who Takes Care To Please A Being That Is Able To Crush All His Adversaries?

Unbounded Courage And Compassion Join'd, Tempering Each Other In The Victor's Mind, Alternately Proclaim Him Good And Great, And Make The Hero And The Man Complete.

On You, My Lord, With Anxious Fear I Wait, And From Your Judgment Must Expect My Fate.

A Man Improves More By Reading The Story Of A Person Eminent For Prudence And Virtue, Than By The Finest Rules And Precepts Of Morality.