We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

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!

It allows you to be yourself, good and bad. And it's a two-way street: you give and take equally.

As we delight in the strange and exotic beauty of orchid flowers, it is salutary to reflect that we are, in essence, looking at their genitalia.

We must make humility the chief thing we admire in Him.

It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.

The most developed science remains a continual becoming

I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth

Different isn't evil, it's just different.

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.