If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.

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!

People are successful because they think and act like successful people.

...and I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

An angry man is always a stupid man.

Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught.

There is no substitute for experience

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly.

The real us is pure love, pure light

The myth of this world is that the way to transformation is through power, but God choose to enter the world in a weak manner, gentle and tender through the heartbeat of a child.