Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.

Just as I’m about to pull him closer to deepen the kiss, he breaks away. “I shouldn’t kiss you when you’ve been crying.” “Yes, you should.” “Yes, I should.

The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.

We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.

Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.

There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.

I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.

I am myself: a light. In me you find your fate. So be not blind to the truth shining from my glow.

The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.