Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

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 have already lost if you are always fearful of losing everything.

Anyone who wonders if a Christian can sin is ignorant about sin's enslaving nature.

Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.

Keep on exploring.Keep on evolving.Keep on experimenting.

It's like raking leaves in the wind.

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all gone.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.