Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

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!

The unpredictability of the future means absolutely nothing to the dreams of an ambitious positive mind.

There is none In all this cold and hollow world no fount Of deep strong deathless love save that within A mother's heart.

I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls.

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

I don't trust a girl who doesn't have any girlfriends.

You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.

I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.

Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.