“Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul”

“It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.”

“Pride costs nothing, yet it is especially precious when it can be “purchased” at someone else’s expense.”

“I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.”

“Success never goes on sale, but most spend their whole life dickering over the cost, never making the purchase.”

“The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of nations. It is the conquest of the heart, the subjugation of the soul, the sanctifying of the flesh, the purifying and ennobling of the passions.”