Necessity Inspires The Fatal Thought.

Original Thoughts Can Be Understood Only In Virtue Of The Unoriginal Elements Which They Contain.

If Ardent Passions Push Not Men On To Lofty Enterprise, Calm Wisdom Never Will Accomplish It.

Thou Knowest Not The Endless Artifices Of A Court. Invented Crimes Are Often There Alleged; But Real Ones, And Those Especially, Which May Offend His Pride, Are Oftentimes Not To A King Divulged.

Alas, 'tis Force Alone That Can Compel To Virtuous Actions A Degenerate People.

For One To Grasp, Whatever Be His Object, Sov'reign Power ... Is An Act Of Perilous Presumption.