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