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• What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
  "I'd cut down every law in England to do that." "Oh?...
• When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands.
  Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again....
• I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry V -- Act iii, Sc. 2...
• I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know i
  as I would be clean for my own sake, although nobody were to see me. -- Shaftesbury...
• I think that when statesmen forsake their private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
  -- Sir Thomas Moore to Cardinal Woolsey in _A Man for All Seasons_...
• Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Sect. 1, Memb. 3...
• INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
  "All men are ingrates," sneered the cynic. "Nay," The good philanthropist replied...
• BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become responsible for that entrusted to another to a third.
  Philippe of Orleans wishing to appoint one of his favorites, a dissolute nobleman, to a high office, asked him what security he would be able to give....