Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.

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!

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is...Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.

When life throws trials and tribulations towards you, shield your destiny with courage, faith and perseverance.

I was born to be a remarkable woman it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

All but God is changing day by day.

Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.

Jacob was a gift from the gods.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.