Fooles give to please all but their owne.

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!

. . .how he had loved Christine more than he had understood, that sometimes one forgot what it meant, really, to love, the way the tide of a marriage advances and retreats, . .

Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration

In order to exist, man must rebel.

You can't start a fire without a spark

Star Trek says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

The fears we don’t face become our limits.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.