To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.

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!

when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

We have a positive power of choice and this is tool we should use to carve greatness out of challenges.

That felt meaningful somehow, like the words on the pages ached for him to know their sorrow.

Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

Wherever you are, that's the entry point.

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

My mind wants to interpret All my dreams. My heart wants to love All my dreams. My soul wants to fulfil All my dreams.

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.