"I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend."

"Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else."

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

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

"He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing."

"It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame."

"The Golden Age was never the present Age."

"An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with."

"It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth."

"Old foxes want no tutors."

"Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest."

"Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell."

"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong."

"He that fears not the future may enjoy the present."

"The Devil himself is good when he is pleased."

"He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung."

"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."

"'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship."

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

"Better hazard once than always be in fear."

"Great and good are seldom the same man."

"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

"Friendship that flames goes out in a flash."

"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money."

"Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work."

"Abused patience turns to fury."

"Many would be cowards if they had courage enough."

"A good garden may have some weeds."

"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."

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

"We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors."

"Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved."

"Better be alone than in bad company."

"A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife."

"A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial."

"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."

"He that would have fruit must climb the tree."

"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."

"That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember."

"'Tis not every question that deserves an answer."

"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."

"Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all."

"The real difference between men is energy."

"Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks."

"Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship."

"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

"Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them."

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

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