I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

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.

Are you a Christian? she said.I answered:I am a Christian, I am a Jew, I am a Catholic, I am Muslim.I am each and everyone of you, look into the mirror and you will see me, as i see you..

I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.

I'm so proud of how well Canada did at the Games here. It think we're going to do even better in 2010.

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

I have a tendency to do the epic kind of long shot and put in everything that you need to know. And that's by design; that's the kind of approach I take to it.

[Donald Trump] campaigned on repealing Obamacare.

Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves.

Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.