If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
Great hopes make great men.
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Better be alone than in bad company.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
The more wit the less courage.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
A good garden may have some weeds.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.
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 command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
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.
Abused patience turns to fury.
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
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.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.