You will not be a chip the richer.

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.

Serious art is born from serious play.

Move on. Life won't wait for you.

3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

The aim is to get as much going out the back as is coming in. You've got to do that because for everything you get in you've got to give something out.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.