In a long journey straw waighs.

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!

Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

We are not going to let Donald Trump bankrupt America the way he bankrupted his casinos.

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.

I'm happy people look at me as a role model.

Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.

It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.