We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

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!

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

The confession of one man humbles all.

If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

You have to be careful who you meet. You can't unmeet them.

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

The more we sweat, the less we bleed.