Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts.

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!

The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is nothing.

Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Preferring the nausea of the path to its fated and certain ending.

You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'

Good manners require space and time.

She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!

Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.

Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind…a mutual understanding of each other. I haven’t felt this way in forever.

China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all ... but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.