Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
A good garden may have some weeds.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
The more wit the less courage.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Abused patience turns to fury.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Better be alone than in bad company.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Great hopes make great men.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.