If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

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

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

With foxes we must play the fox.

All doors open to courtesy.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

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

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.