Marriage can wait, education cannot.
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap
The venal herd. [Lat. , Venale pecus. ]
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat. , Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur. ]
Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat. , Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. ]
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.
Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
When she walked. . . she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.
There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that. . . but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.