So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Content to follow when we lead the way.

Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.