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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd;And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still! - Destruction of Sennacherib, The.

To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.