Laws are subordinate to custom.

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.

I do not want to just read books I want to crawl inside them and live there.

Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

i'm social but there's a limit

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

God didn't create any of us to be average. He didn't make us to barely get by. We were created to excel.

I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.