The fish adores the bait.

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!

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

The craving to touch her is like an itch I can't scratch.

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

General Flynn said all the talk about the connections between Trump and his campaign in Russia are nonsense.

A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.