A captive fetter'd at the oar of gain. [ Falconer ]

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of our souls,
The wise man's fetter and the rage of fools. [ Otway ]

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]

Forever haltless hurries Time, the Durable to gain,
Be true, and thou shalt fetter Time with everlasting chain. [ Schiller ]

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. [ Colton ]

Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will imbitter his days, and spoil him for his proper work. [ Emerson ]