He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

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!

Faith with work yields fulfillment

All changes have their melancholy

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group

...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

I love to think big and with the right people on board I know I can make anything.

Justice renders to every one his due.

The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have much more observational humor.

Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.