How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

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.

What's wrong with people is people. There's no cure for that.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

It's not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let's put it on display and have some fun.

The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.

I like to do a lot of research on all of the films I work on. So, I like to read a lot. That's always an interesting part of it with me.

In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.

Any action is better than no action at all.

I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.