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

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.

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

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

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.

Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.