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