Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish