A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
He travels best that knows when to return.
Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.