Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
— Thomas Fuller
Old foxes want no tutors.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
The more wit the less courage.
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
Better a tooth out than always aching.
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
A good garden may have some weeds.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Abused patience turns to fury.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
We have all forgot more than we remember.
Bad excuses are worse than none.
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.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
Pride will spit in pride's face.
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Eaten bread is forgotten.
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.