A good garden may have some weeds

What reason and endeavor cannot bring about, often time will

Light (God’s eldest daughter) is a principal beauty in building.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

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

Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.

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

Pride will spit in pride’s face.

Better a tooth out than always aching.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

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

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

A book that is shut is but a block

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed

My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter’s my daughter all the days of her life.

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

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

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

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

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

We have all forgot more than we remember

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

A good horse should be seldom spurred

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

Suspect all extraneous and groundless civilities.

Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

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

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

Better be alone than in bad company.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

With foxes we must play the fox.

A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is his wife

Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing.

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

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

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

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

Willful waste brings woeful want

Lavishness is not generosity.