I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.