An inch in a man's nose is much.

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

Many talk like philosophers, and live like fools.

He who has good health is young.

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

If on creation's morn the king of heaven

To shrubs and flowers a sovereign lord had given,

O beauteous rose, he had anointed thee

Of shrubs and flowers the sovereign lord to be;

The spotless emblem of unsullied truth,

The smile of beauty and the glow of youth,

The garden's pride, the grace of vernal bowers,

The blush of meadows, and the eye of flowers.

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.

On paper curiously shaped

Scribblers to-day of every sort,

In verses Valentines ycled'd

To Venus chime their annual court.

I too will swell the motley throng,

And greet the all auspicious day,

Whose privilege permits my song

My love this secret to convey.

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

The smile that illumines the features of beauty,

When kindled by virtue, alluring appears;

But smiles, tho' alluring, no magic can borrow,

To vie with the softness of beauty in tears.

The smiles that are sweetest are often deceiving;

Too often a mask which the cold-hearted wears;

But a tear is the holiest offspring of feeling,

And monarchs are weak before beauty in tears.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Every dog is a lion at home.

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.

Every potter praises his own pot.

Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.

Little minds, like weak liquors, are soonest soured.

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.

Few there are that will endure a true friend.