Health is not valued till sickness comes.

With foxes we must play the fox.

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

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up...

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

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

If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

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

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

All doors open to courtesy.

No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

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

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

Today is yesterday’s pupil.

A good garden may have some weeds.

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

Bad excuses are worse than none.

To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the...

A good friend is my nearest relation.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

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

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and...

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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

Now the testament is, that his blood was shed for our sins; but it is impossible that the cup or his blood should be that promise.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

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.

Better be alone than in bad company.

Wherefore if Christ did put his bodily presence in the sacrament, and would we should believe it; it is done only to bring us to this faith.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

In fair Weather prepare for foul.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

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

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Christianity will only make a contribution to the future of Europe if it can prove that people like Sam Harris are wrong and that we can make peace.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.