That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

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!

Knowledge is power is time is money.

Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth.This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering.

Your face is engraved in my mind. I can’t erase it. I don’t want to. Because as much as I hate you, I love you. And I love you unforgettably.

I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations of suspect ideas they provoke.

Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

All has gone to rest, and I don't know whether I'm alive or will live or whether I'm rushing like this through the world for I'm not longer weeping or laughing

The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.