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