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