Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

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!

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.

Seek the spark of divinity within thy soul.

How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.

Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

Marriage is designed to pull dysfunction to the surface of our lives, set it on fire and help us grow.