The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.

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!

Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If ‘oneself’ gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive.

I was working at eBay, so I would just troll the vintage categories, find old amps and what have you. I was buying a fair amount of stuff and playing with it and then selling it back.

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.

Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.

Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.