The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.

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!

You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable.

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

The state of no being is pure.

The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.

Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All earth's full rivers cannot fill The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.

Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.

Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.