It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.

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.

Hearts are breakable, " Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".

You are sitting! Want to be there? You can’t reach there by not going there! Sitting is the enemy of your dreams!

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.

Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.

You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder.

Why is partying and having a good time bad?

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?