If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Great hopes make great men.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

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

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

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

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

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

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

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

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

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

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

Better be alone than in bad company.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Care and diligence bring luck.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

The more wit the less courage.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

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.