Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.

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!

With or without payment, the work will be done.

I'd love to design a school.

I find teenage girls endlessly funny.

Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.

I can't get no respect.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.