How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

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

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.

Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die and pass to lands whither we maynot hope to follow; to wait while drop by drop the curse of the longcenturies falls upon our imperishable being, like water slow drippingon a diamond that it cannot wear, till they be born anew forgetful ofus, and again sink from our helpless arms into the void unknowable.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?