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