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