A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.