Though old and wise, yet still advise.

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!

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

Your face expresses a simple majesty, your look is that of a captive princess.

Finding out how the rest of the world lives is a normal part of rumschpringe. I didn't think it was up to my father-or my bishop-to squash that kind of curiosity.

Ben wore the same goofy smile as in the photo. Take that, new guy! I can make him happy too!

If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government.

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.

The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be himself.

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.