It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.