Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

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.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

I love California

That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

m doing my best" "no,this isn't your best. We shall recognize your best when it appears

Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment.

I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.

I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn’t understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller coasters, and I ride them anyway, too.

The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always, opportunity confers moral responsibility.

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?