A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.

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!

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath.

Gratitude opens our eyes to miracles that surround us. Life's a miracle and a gift. Take every breath in gratitude

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

There's a deeper conversation to be had on guns, and just because I happen to know where I fall into that conversation doesn't mean that I don't want to have that conversation.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

We suffer as a result of our own actions; it is unfair to blame anybody for it.

You can only stay connected if you feel connected.