If it pleases you, it pleases us also.

On the cultivation of learning.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

If you wish to see the laws of high thunder with a pure and skilful mind, look upon the summits of the highest heaven.

-- Boethius

Westward the course of empire takes its way.

-- George Berkeley

Ask why this pond stays so clear: because living water keeps flowing from its source.

-- Zhu Xi

Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have changed.

-- Cleopatra

Take whatever time gives you, and do not mourn what slips away.

-- Harun al-Rashid

Among the people there is no possession so esteemed as the state / yet there is no state in this world like one breath of good health.

-- Suleiman the Magnificent