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