He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.

Whoever desires is always poor.

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

Death is the great leveller.

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.

Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.

Hatred - The anger of the weak.

Where the mind goes the body will follow.

All the disappointments, broken dreams and deep dark experiences will soon be forgotten and blotted out like a bad dream, when that glorious dawn of Heaven arrives!

The older you get, the more you should learn to love life and appreciate the beauty that comes with age.

A real collector does not sell.

“You may have eternity. I have only now.” “But this is eternity.”

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.