The honey is sweet, but the toil to gather it is laborious.
Honey is the one thing that stands for sweetness and goodness.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.
Honey is delicious to the taste, but sour to the purse.
The sweetness of honey is matched by the kindness of its giver.

Honey is sweet, but the taste of wisdom is sweeter.

Honey, like the dew of morning, adds freshness to life.