These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

Painting is silent poetry.

When the candles are out all women are fair.

Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.

Words will build no walls.