The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king's beer, and be numbered amongst the king's wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased to give her to me.

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.