Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Care and diligence bring luck.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.
A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Good is not good, where better is expected.
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.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.