A faire death honours the whole life.

The best mirror is an old friend.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.

Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.