"Each man delights in the work that suits him best."

"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."

"Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death."

"And bid your handmaids to do their work. But stories concern men, all men, but especially me, for mine is the power in the house."

"Would that I were still young and strong as I was in those days, for then some one of you swineherds would give me a cloak both out of good will and for the respect due to a brave soldier; but now peo…"