The stronger always succeeds.

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.

The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

We aren't protecting the people who most need it when those who can contribute to the country's success emigrate. Contrary to what some claim, I am not getting rid of the wealth tax to help the rich.

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.

It's hard to outdo the Lord in generosity.

The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.

Inside the peach, there is a stone.

When you know the builder, you can have complete confidence in the quality of his work.

Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.