With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
Without businesse debauchery.
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe.
Woe to the house where there is no chiding.
Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.
Working and making a fire doth discretion require.
Yeeres know more then bookes.
You cannot flea a stone.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.
You may be on land, yet not in a garden.
You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.
You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one Anvile.
Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one.
If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.
A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.
Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee.
A snow year, a rich year.
Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not.
Reason and speech we onely bring.