There Is A Certain Amount Of Purpose,

I Do Not Understand; I Pause; I Examine.

A Man Must Become Wise At His Own Expense.

Even In The Midst Of Compassion We Feel Within I Know Not What Tart Sweet Titillation Of Malicious Pleasure In Seeing Others Suffer; Children Have The Same Feeling.

The Secret Counsels Of Princes Are A Troublesome Burden To Such As Have Only To Execute Them.

Now There Cannot Be First Principles For Men, Unless The Divinity Has Revealed Them; All The Rest--beginning, Middle, And End--isnothing But Dreams And Smoke.