Every path hath a puddle.

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!

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Don't run with the crowd

I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.

I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

I have a really terrible sense of direction.

The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.

The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it.

It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.