In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

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!

You need to understand the inner flowing energy and the eternal truth, is revealed to you. This is the only mystery, cult, esoteric, elusive or magic of life exists in the universe.

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

I don't like definitions. I like four-hour movies.

I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.