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