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

"The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable."

"The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest."

"He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise."

"A danger foreseen is half avoided."

"Sudden acquaintance brings repentance."

"None can pray well but he that lives well."

"A good life fears not life nor death."

"The image of God cut in ebony."

"There is no banquet but some dislike something in it."

"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity."

"One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun."

"Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune."

"Prospect is often better than possession."

"A forced kindness deserves no thanks."

"We could be cowards if we had courage enough."

"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."

"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."

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

"Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all."

"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy."

"A good friend is my nearest relation."

"Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves."

"First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife."

"Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."

"A man is not good or bad for one action."

"He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater."

"Great hopes make great men."

"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."

"One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low."

"Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm."

"He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it."

"Pride will spit in pride's face."

"Love the itch and a cough cannot be hid."

"With foxes we must play the fox."

"We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault."

"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."

"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help."

"Bad excuses are worse than none."

"Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men."

"Danger past, God is forgotten."

"Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them."

"He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil."

"Every tub must stand on its own bottom."

"The more wit the less courage."

"Misfortunes tell us what fortune is."

"He is idle that might be better employed."

"They say so' is half a lie."

"Tender-handed stroke a nettle and it stings you for your pains Grasp it like a man of mettle and it soft as silk remains."

"A coward's fear can make a coward valiant."