He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one

Manners make often fortunes.

A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.

The tree falls not at the first stroke.

There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.