Let all live as they would die.
He that respects not is not respected.
A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the further of the two.
Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
It is good to have friends both in Heaven and Hell.
Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand.
He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
Money refused loose its brightness.
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.
Do well and right and let the world sink.
Step by step the ladder is ascended.
If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him.
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.
He hath no leisure who useth it not.
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.