Juvenal

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?