Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.

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.

The one who never repents shall be the one who never sleeps.

I think: by the time I'm old, nobody will be able to die any more.

Revolutions are not about trifles but spring from trifles.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

I've just got to maintain my passion for what I do.

We live in a society where everything's packaged.

That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'