Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.

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!

Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

Wisdom from Top Butler: Guard yourself at all times but don't let anyone lead you to live a guarded life that is all.

We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter of chance.

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .