If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.
Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
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.
Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.
He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.
No man can be happy without a friend nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good hu...
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.
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.