Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell

As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors

A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell!

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Abused patience turns to fury.

Today is yesterday’s pupil.

Danger past, God is forgotten.

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

A generous confession disarms slander.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.

If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

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

Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves

The best way to see divine light is to put out thy own candle

Cruelty is a tyrant that’s always attended with fear

Nothing sharpens sight like envy.

He is rich that is satisfied.

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

Better lose a jest than a friend

That trial is not fair where affection is judge

There is not so much comfort in the having of children as there is sorrow in parting with them

Act nothing in a furious passion. It’s putting to sea in a storm.

The devil himself is good when he is pleased.

‘Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

Fool’s names, like fool’s faces – Are often seen in public places

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

Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas

Willful waste brings woeful want.

A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains

Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.

In fair Weather prepare for foul.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

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

He that travels much knows much

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

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

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

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

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

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

Nothing is easy to the unwilling

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

A book that is shut is but a block.

Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

All the world will beat the man whom fortune buffets

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