One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

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.

You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable, " she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."“Beautiful and full of monsters?"“All the best stories are.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

I've won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.

We have to stop the idea that we are going to create something out of nothing, but instead attract to ourselves what is already here.