A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Great hopes make great men.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

A good garden may have some weeds.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Abused patience turns to fury.

Better be alone than in bad company.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

The more wit the less courage.