A woman without paint is like food without salt.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Music enlivens my soul and opens my heart to ever greater levels of bliss and joy.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.

I'm deadly serious even when I play tennis against my kids. I want to beat their brains out.

Push on and faith will catch up with you.

Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Girls have to be strong to protect the men they love.