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| Commonly they use their feet for defence whose tongue is their weapon. | 1 |
| Confidence in one’s self is the chief nurse of magnanimity. | 2 |
| Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory. | 3 |
| Cruelty in war buyeth conquest at the dearest price. | 4 |
| Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior’s plumes. | 5 |
| Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man’s life. | 6 |
| Eagles fly alone; they are but sheep that always herd together. | 7 |
| Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice and dull in every other. | 8 |
| Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. | 9 |
| Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws. | 10 |
| Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience. | 11 |
| Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom. | 12 |
| God is goodness itself, and whatsoever is good is of Him. | 13 |
| Great is not great to the greater. | 14 |
| He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner. | 15 |
| He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. | 16 |
| He who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue. | 17 |
| High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy. | 18 |
| I am no herald to inquire of men’s pedigrees; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. | 19 |
| It is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened. | 20 |
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| Lamenting becomes fools, and action wise folk. | 21 |
| Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves. | 22 |
| Laws are not made like nets—to catch, but like sea-marks—to guide. | 23 |
| Look in thy heart and write. | 24 |
| Look to thyself; reach not beyond humanity. | 25 |
| Love one time layeth burdens, another time giveth wings. | 26 |
| Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts. | 27 |
| My better half. | 28 |
| No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue. | 29 |
| Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence. | 30 |
| Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason. | 31 |
| Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim—nay, blind—thou art in preventing them! | 32 |
| She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her own worthiness. | 33 |
| The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune. | 34 |
| The only disadvantage of an honest heart is its credulity. | 35 |
| There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns. | 36 |
| There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking. | 37 |
| There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental. | 38 |
| There is nothing more terrible to a guilty heart than the eye of a respected friend. | 39 |
| They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. | 40 |
| Thinking nurseth thinking. | 41 |
| Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself. | 42 |
| Violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding. | 43 |
| Weigh not so much what men say, as what they prove: remembering that truth is simple and naked, and needs not invective to apparel her comeliness. | 44 |
| What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine! | 45 |
| Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valour, which should be lifted up to such a height that, holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness even in the midst of miseries. | 46 |
| While there is hope left, let not the weakness of sorrow make the strength of resolution languish. | 47 |
| You will never live to my age, without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. | 48 |
| Youth ever thinks that good whose goodness or evil he sees not. | 49 |
| Youth will never live to age, without they keep themselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. Too much thinking doth consume the spirits; and oft it falls out, that while one thinks too much of doing, he leaves to do the effect of his thinking. | 50 |
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