He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after. [He that lives not well one year sorrows seven years after.]

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!

Life's lessons aren't always new. Often they're the same old worn-out truths offering us greater depths of wisdom and understanding.

She charmed and sparkled and said witty things, but she knew very well she was being charming and sparkling and witty while she was doing it, which somehow felt wrong.

Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas is big growth because you don't tax people to death.

Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.

Happiness is the natural state of our being

It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.

Don't put yourself in a time-out.