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