Every ill man hath his ill day.

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!

The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.

A sinner’s humanity will cause him to fall from grace again and again, but his human pride, ego, or feeling of unworthiness should not prevent him from seeking God’s forgiveness again and again.

It isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart. —Unknown

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

Tis immortality to die aspiring.

...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.

I know that if I scare myself once a day, I'm a better person.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.