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