Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? - Algernon Charles Swinburne

Save his own soul he hath no star.

I believe Not more in God's word than in yours; and this Not for your station's sake, nor yet your fame's, How high soe'er the wind of war have blown The splendour of your standard: but, my lord, Your face and heart and speech, being one, require Of any not base-born and servile-souled Faith: and my faith I give you.

Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.