Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.

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.

Success starts with a good plan. To have it, you have to plan it.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.

Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.

What harm is there in making 100,000 people happy on a hot summer afternoon?

Do what is right, though the world may perish.

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.