Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Don't leave the classroom of pain without gathering wisdom from its instruction.

I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.

I hate to ask about the title, because it makes it seem like that is all I've read of the book.

Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

Other people's children's birthday parties are the most joyful events you will ever resent having to attend.

I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.