It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

The impacts of this inflexible law have been real and devastating,

Should I have the good fortune to fall in with him again, I'll make a lord of him.