If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

Mankind is at its best when it is most free.

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.