It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

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.

Oh, for Christ's sake, ' I hear. 'Can we please just try to have a good time?' This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.

I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.

Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments.

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

She's the gal in the red blue jeans.

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of.

You can move beyond the ego's perspective and see reality from the perspective of a higher consciousness.