"The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest."

"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity."

"Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune."

"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."

"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."

"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."

"Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all."

"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy."

"A good friend is my nearest relation."

"Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves."

"First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife."

"Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."

"A man is not good or bad for one action."

"Great hopes make great men."

"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."

"One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low."

"Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm."

"Pride will spit in pride's face."

"With foxes we must play the fox."

"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."

"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help."

"Bad excuses are worse than none."

"Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them."

"He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil."

"The more wit the less courage."

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

"It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame."

"An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with."

"Old foxes want no tutors."

"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong."

"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."

"'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship."

"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money."

"Abused patience turns to fury."

"A good garden may have some weeds."

"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."

"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers."

"Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved."

"Better be alone than in bad company."

"A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife."

"A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial."

"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."

"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."

"'Tis not every question that deserves an answer."

"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."

"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."

"Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks."

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

"Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them."