The most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
See that you come not to woo honour, but to wed it.
Power is the goal of all ambition.
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.[Sólo el que intenta lo absurdo es capaz de lograr lo imposible.]
O, had I but followed the arts!
O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention!
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.[Umuligt er forresten ingenting, som man ubændigt vil.]
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.[to Lady Hunstanton]
