Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.

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!

Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

His looks are my weakness, his mind my undoing.

The trouble with Lucious, " he said, putting his feet up on the desk after this cousin has gone, " is that he thinks politics is a fight for justice. Politics is a profession.

I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.

Testimony is not something you have today, and you are going to have always. A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as a moonbeam. It is something you have to recapture every day of your life.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.

I'm going to explore the possibility that my future work could be in public service rather than corporate work.

I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.