Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.