The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

Nothing so perilous as procrastination