Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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.

I don't want to die, but I don't want to be the only one to live, either. When I was sitting alone last night, I kind of figured maybe that's how Jesus felt.

If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

He who Serves his fellows is, of all his fellows, greatest

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

I’m a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it.

no project is completed until its objective has been achieved.

Ray Charles, who said to Stevie Wonder, Maybe we're white. Never got a dinner!

It's fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. I'm going to start making them count.