Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.