“Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?”
“Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense”
“Twas said better to light a candle than curse the dark...”
“We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.”
“And of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.”
“Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!”