Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.