No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

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.

Sic vis pacem para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war.

Experience is a collection of our successes and failures.

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!

A man who is right by your side through everything makes you happy. But he can leave your side to make dinner once in a while!

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

On the plane was a Time magazine and there was a 30 page article on diabetes, and I read every page. By the time that plane landed, I had diabetes.

A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology.

The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.