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