Old foxes want no tutors.
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
A good garden may have some weeds.
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Eaten bread is forgotten.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
He that travels much knows much.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
We have all forgot more than we remember.
'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
Pride will spit in pride's face.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
Today is yesterday's pupil.
He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.