“To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without a name.”

“One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name”

“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.”

“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum”

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”

“Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.”

“Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”