If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]

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!

Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

If I could do it over, I'd do better.

The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s … well, it wouldn't have happened to Jews.

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?