You may be on land, yet not in a garden.

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!

We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

I was able to do that [showing up of Democratic benefits] when I was the candidate. But I've not seen or presided over that kind of systematic outreach that I think needs to happen.

The Marxist outlook ... represents the most consistent and systematic application of the scientific outlook and method.

Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

No one could be the way I remember my father.

It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap.

It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.

The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.