Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
The devil lies brooding in the miser’s chest.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
A good garden may have some weeds.
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
Abused patience turns to fury.
Bad excuses are worse than none.