“Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.”
“Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.”
“Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.”
“There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.”
“Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.”
“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.”
“A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.”
“Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.”
“Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.”
“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”
“He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.”
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.”
“He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.”
“He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.”
“Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.”
“He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .”
“If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.”
“Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.”
“A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.”
“Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.”
“Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.”
“It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.”
“The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.”
“God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.”
“The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.”
“If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.”
“An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.”
“Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.”
“Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.”
“Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.”