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