More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]

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!

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

A mind is not profound by itself, just like a tree without a root.

When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.

Do you not think, Mrs. Givings, that snow is always kind? Because it has to fall slowly, to meet the ground slowly, or the eyelash slowly— And things that meet each other slowly are kind.

All the problems of the nation are nothing, in comparison to the might of God

One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a Catholic scapular, medal, crucifix, or relic of an alleged "saint."

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation.

When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.

Print and web have profoundly different effects: The effect is immediate when people can click on links.