Pleasing ware is half sold.

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!

The fat man looked amused. "What on earth for?" he said. "I never have any contact with writers. If I do, they just keep pestering me about getting paid.

Michelin Star? I’d rather chew a French rubber tyre.

To achieve something is better than not achieving.

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

Art is nothing; it's a way.

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.

Finding love requires perseverance.

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.