"Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!"

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."

"Betwixt the devil and the deep sea."

"Be they wynners or loosers,…beggers should be no choosers."

"He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty."

"Imagine a captain of a ship the moment a shift of direction must be made; then he may be able to say: I can do either…"

"Every person, if he so wills, can become a paradigmatic human being, not by brushing of his accidental qualities, but…"

"So much to win, so much to lose, No marvel that I fear to choose."

"Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all."

"He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay."