Where there are friends there is wealth.

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.

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.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

Every action has a reaction, everything we do or say has an effect.

I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.

God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.

Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

Just being around the awareness field of the male or female imprinter, the child is imprinted.

I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.

God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.