| One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. |
| All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. |
| Better hazard once than always be in fear. |
| He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief. |
| 'Tis not every question that deserves an answer. |
| If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. |
| He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. |
| Two things a man should never be angry at what he can help, and what he cannot help. |
| No good workman without good tools. |
| No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. |
| Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. |
| I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. |
| Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. |
| Rigid justice is the greatest injustice. |
| An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. |
| If you have a true friend, you have more than your share. |
| All things are difficult before they are easy. |
| Care and diligence bring luck. |
| Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. |
| A good friend is my nearest relation. |
| Do as most do, and men will speak well of you. |
| The grave is the general meeting place. |
| Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. |
| Money is the sinew of love as well as war. |
| Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. |
| Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong. |
| Health is not valued till sickness comes. |
| He that plants trees loves others beside himself. |
| With foxes we must play the fox. |
| Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper. |
| Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. |
| A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. |
| Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. |
| Purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. |
| If thou are a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf. |
| Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. |
| Enquire not what boils in another's pot. |
| If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. |
| Learning makes a man fit company for himself. |
| Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise. |
| Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. |
