I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart