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