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