All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

• Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
• Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.
• I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar.
• All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
• He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
• Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.