There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Abused patience turns to fury.
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
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.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
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.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Better be alone than in bad company.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
A good garden may have some weeds.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
Great hopes make great men.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
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.
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.
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.