The tongue talkes at the heads cost.

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!

The global question is why you came to the earth

Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

If children have interests, then education happens.

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

When a ball goes into a net it only means something because we decided it means something. When somebody punches somebody in the face it always means something.

Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.

Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.