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

"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it."

"Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear."

"Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing."

"All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer."

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

"Today is yesterday's pupil."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none."

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

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

"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul."

"Despair gives courage to a coward."

"In fair weather prepare for foul."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

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

"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."

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

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

"All doors open to courtesy."

"He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back."

"If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter."

"With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself."

"He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows."

"Scalded cats fear even cold water."

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

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after."

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

"Health is not valued till sickness comes."

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

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

"Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak."

"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time."

"Change of weather is the discourse of fools."

"Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart."

"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

"Care and diligence bring luck."

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

"The fool wanders, a wise man travels."

"Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye."

"Poor men's reasons are not heard."

"Nothing is easy to the unwilling."

"Better break your word than do worse in keeping it."

"If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf."

"The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir."

"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

"A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be."

"He does not believe who does not live according to his belief."