• 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.