To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

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.

Happiness, it has been observed, is best achieved by those who have been most unhappy heretofore.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

I stared down into her eyes, my voice barely a whisper. "If I stay here any longer, I'm not going to be able to stop myself from kissing you.

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

If I had only three years to serve the Lord, I would spend two of them studying and preparing.

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.

Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.