The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.

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.

Moving your body moves energy. You can create or demolish whatever you need with kinetic dynamism.

Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world - the ... affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.

To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.

Just be yourself, be you and that's how I think you're going to feel the most confident.

My mom was never afraid to say, 'I'm sorry. I screwed up.' I feel like that's an important lesson.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not