We learn by teaching.
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
Respect a man, he will do the more.
Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.
Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.
He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it – for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.
Little sins are pioneers of hell.
We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
Man’s best candle is his understanding.
God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.
The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.