Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.

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.

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us And foolish notion.

The basis of everything I do is the universe.

I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

I want to leave a souvenir of my life.

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style.

Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.

I dont believe in having regrets.