Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

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!

LIFE and TIME are the world's best teachers.LIFE teaches us to make good use of TIME and TIME teaches us the value of LIFE.

I closed my eyes and immediately I pictured Brooklyn’s full lips parted on a moan, her eyes glassy and her pupils dilated, her cheeks flushed and her body…her smoking body bared only for me.

The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.

…while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

Elena?" "Yes, unless Nick found a woman in the forest, which I suppose wouldn't be too surprising.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are miserable, because it is not that everyone in every situation will respect us.

We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.