Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.

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!

God created heaven on earth but man created hell.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.

Play is kids' work in that it is a form of experiential learning that contributes directly to a person's ability to handle failure, to work in teams, and to take risks.

A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

I yawned and stretched luxuriously in the morning. I make noises when I stretch because it feels ten times better than stretching silently.

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

If Milo [Yiannopoulos] were a liberal, he could say whatever and then some, and he wouldn't be addressing Conservative Political Action Conference, he would be emceeing the Oscars.

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.