Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.

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!

When I’d confronted him, he’d left me and, like a parasite finding a fresh host, moved in with her.

Best of all are the decorations the grandchildren have made ~ fat little stars and rather crooked Santas, shaped out of dough and baked in the oven.

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth--when their love is prosperous and confessed.

Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.

You moan, "She left me." "He left me," Twenty more will come.