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