As writer Isak Dinesen put it, All sorrows can be borne if we put them in a story or tell a story about them.
I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.
Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.
A stranger may find beauty in you yet.
Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.
The nights were mainly made for saying things you can't say tomorrow day.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.