Storms make oaks take deeper root.

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!

Competition in spiritual matters brings confusion.

The proud hate pride in others.

All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable to hard work.

There is no disinfectant like success.

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth.

Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.

It's just a big excuse to say awful things.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution