For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

It is always wise as it is also fair to test a man by the standards of his own day and not by those of another.

Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.

Vanity: my favorite sin.

The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.

Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend a lifetime in its ongoing pursuit.

Basilicas should be constructed on a site adjoining the forum and in the warmest possible quarter, so that in winter business men may gather in them without being troubled by the weather.

The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.