Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.

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!

No one can be compared with you and so no one can refute this

People only accept change in necessity and see necessity only in crisis.

Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

Till we attain immortality, all life will remain just an illusion!

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.

Redrafts can be very lucrative for me, but you must understand that if films go through many drafts or writers it's because someone doesn't want to do the picture and never will.