Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.

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!

With courage, always go where you fear to go.

[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom."-William F Buckley

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

I don't consider myself a pariah.

A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]

Don't say 'No,' say 'Gilbert,' ladies and gentlemen.

If you're overwhelmed, lost, or like you life is out of control, do whatever you can that matters to someone else or ever did to you... it might not help, but it certainly won't hurt.

God doesn’t tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.