Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).

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!

We were quiet, two tiny specks glued down by gravity, peering at a universe that didn't notice us back.

Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.

When we know that educating a girl can change the world, why wait?

Lifes too short to live the same day twice.

Encourage the many; mentor the few.

But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

You cannot fail. You can only get results.

It's become fashionable to put down people who we then expect to vote for us.