By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.

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!

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

Don't stress over being yourself. The act of being yourself is simply to be. Be without changing yourself for others. Simply be.

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy

Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it.

I could smell an arrogance, it was my cheap fragrance.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

Oh my God, that is the best coffee I've ever tasted.