Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.
Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.