Many friends in generall, one in speciall.

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!

I was enjoying the great human trophy hunt and, looking back, it scares the hell out of me

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

Every action has a reaction. We've got one planet and one chance.

The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.

To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.