Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

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.

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.

What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness.

The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life.