That which two will, takes effect.

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!

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park

My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist.

Stay focused on the mission.

I felt if I didn't find anything, I would give up a scientific career altogether.

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.