Man’s best candle is his understanding.
God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.
Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
Words and works eat not at one table.
After rain comes fair weather.
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.
Love is the life of friendship.
Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man’s candle.
Fly and you will catch the swallow.
This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.
Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.
Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.
He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
Appeles us’d to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.