Reason Is Life's Sole Arbiter,

The Dearest Ambition Of A Slave Is Not Liberty, But To Have A Slave Of His Own.

Friends Of My Youth, A Last Adieu! Haply Some Day We Meet Again; Yet Ne'er The Self-same Men Shall Meet; The Years Shall Make Us Other Men.

[shahrazad] Had Perused The Books, Annals And Legends Of Preceding Kings, And The Stories, Examples And Instances Of By Gone Men And Things; Indeed It Was Said That She Had Collected A Thousand Books Of Histories Relating To Antique Races And Departed Rulers. She Had Perused The Works Of The Poets And Knew Them By Heart; She Had Studied Philosophy And The Sciences, Arts And Accomplishments; And She Was Pleasant And Polite, Wise And Witty, Well Read And Well Bred.

Of The Gladdest Moments In Human Life...is The Departure Upon A Distant Journey Into Unknown Lands.

I'd Like To Be Born The Son Of A Duke With 90,000 Pounds A Year, On An Enormous Estate.... And I'd Like To Have The Most Enormous Library, And I'd Like To Think That I Could Read Those Books Forever And Forever, And Die Unlamented, Unknown, Unsung, Unhonored - And Packed With Information.