"Fate had decreed that she should be the Queen of the World and the Princess of the Time."

"I saw now the faction, but was irresolute what to do... [for I feared that] the Power of a wife, a sonne, and a favor…"

"Day by day her influence and digniy increased... No gramt of lands was conferred upon any woman except under he seal.…"

"He who has trembled before the pedagogue's rod will not face the spear willingly."

"At first we were confused. The East thought that we were West while the West considered us to be the East. Some of us…"

"Whoever is a Serb and of Serb birth, And of Serb blood and heritage, And comes not to the Battle of Kosovo, May he ne…"

"Bitter was the tsar’s curse to hear; aye! and a word of woe: "Who comes not to the battle with me at Kósovo, Let noth…"

"Ја кажем и молим Господа да буде хришћанима помоћник, а ја нека будем први међу мртвима у овом рату."

"In days of yore, there reigned in the extenfive and populous empire of Hindoostan, emblematic of Paradise, a Sovereig…"

"The lady, on hearing this melody, like the nightingale, having expanded the wings of curiosity in search of this flow…"