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