He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.

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 things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

No one will make progress with God until our eyes are lifted to the faithfulness of God and we stop looking at ourselves!

I've discreetly dated a lot of people - I once dated a billionaire, mostly because it was fun to say, "I'm dating a billionaire," but we did not have the same taste in music, and it was doomed.

I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing well, or in some cases, there are none.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

Theology without practice is the theology of demons

I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.