Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
Man's best candle is his understanding.