The hole calls the thiefe. [The hole calls the thief.]

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!

If you blame gravity for falling in love, even God has the right to laugh at you.

The person of creatures is living, the purpose of living is service, a service that implants legacy.

Nothing would keep him from loving her. She was everything he wanted. She was his.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.

Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.

I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

One person with the ability of half a person doing the work of four people.