A closed mouth catches no flies.

Everything disturbs an absent lover.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

Behind the cross is the devil.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?