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