Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.
Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
They are rich who have true friends.
Today is yesterday's pupil.
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
Better be alone than in bad company.
Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.
Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.
Pride perceiving humility honourable often borrows her cloak.
Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.
No man can be happy without a friend nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.
What a day may bring a day may take away.
We would be cowards if we had courage enough.
He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.
Tender-handed stroke a nettle and it stings you for your pains Grasp it like a man of mettle and it soft as silk remains.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.