When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.

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!

Sometimes the wisdom of the elderly is equivalent to that of a child.

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

It is good to forget one's anger against one's wrongdoer, whoever he may be, for countless number of evils will quickly grow from this anger.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.