He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
~ Thomas Fuller
A man surprised is half beaten.
Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.
Good is not good where better is expected.
Prospect is often better than possession.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Soft words are hard arguments.
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
Abused patience turns to fury.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Care and diligence bring luck.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
The more wit the less courage.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
A good garden may have some weeds.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
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.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
