His youth was distinguished by all the tumult and storm of pleasures, in which he licentiously triumphed, disdaining all decorum. ...His fine imagination was often heated and exhausted with his body in celebrating and deifying the prostitute of the night, and his convivial joys were pushed to all the extravagancy of frantic bacchanals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to ...do without, and to depart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from... taking trouble about any improvement in particular.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hard-hearted minds relent and rigor's tears abound, And envy strangely rues his end, in whom no fault was found.... Knowledge her light hath lost, valor hath slain her knight, Sidney is dead, dead is my friend, dead is the world's delight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
1st Murderer. Where's thy conscience now?... 2nd Murderer. I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward.... It fills a ma...n full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »