Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.