Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.

It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.

If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

I little esteeme to see your visage and figure, little doe I regard the night and darknesse thereof, for you are my only light.

Love is pure, perfect, precise, and precious.

As long as you know 'to let' means to rent and not a place to pee, you’re all set to travel in the UK. The lifts and the boots and everything else don’t really matter.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your life, or be a blanket and sleep your life away?

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

I'm not better than you; I'm just different than you in a way that's better.