If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.

No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.

To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

There is not love where there is no will.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

God gives us time. And who has time for God?

She gives the night its dreams.

I love to see my records broken, I really do, you get a chance to relive your life, the whole experience.

Let’s hope she’s like the others, who look only at the surface. Let’s hope she’d never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.

A lot of shows start at one place, and then each episode is like a new little circle, often getting smaller.

I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story).