Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.
She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
Every dog must have his day.