How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.