Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.
Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.
A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.