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