"The resolved mind hath no cares."

"Many kiss the hand they wish cut off."

"The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition."

"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven."

"Hell is full of good meanings and wishings."

"Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health."

"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army."

"Punishment is lame, but it comes."

"The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken."

"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie."

"It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush."

"Night is the mother of counsels."

"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit."

"The eyes have one language everywhere."

"The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one."

"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life."

"Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path."

"Better never begin than never make an end."

"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread."

"Good words are worth much, and cost little."

"Never was a miser a brave soul."

"There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it."

"Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy."

"Love and a cough cannot be hid."

"There would be no great men if there were no little ones."

"There is great force hidden in a gentle command."

"He hath no leisure who useth it not."

"Living well is the best revenge."

"Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby."

"He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise."

"Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

"Storms make the oak grow deeper roots."

"Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night."

"He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea."

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."

"He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world."

"A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin."

"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."

"Life is half spent before we know what it is."

"War makes thieves and peace hangs them."

"None knows the weight of another's burden."

"In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge."

"You must lose a fly to catch a trout."

"One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father."