Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.
A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.
Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.