One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.
Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.