A good friend is my nearest relation.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

With foxes we must play the fox.