Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Anger

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Belief

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Chance

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Courage

The more wit the less courage.

Debt

Debt is the worst poverty.

Dress

Good clothes open all doors.

Excuses

Bad excuses are worse than none.

Fame

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Friends and Friendship

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Gold

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Greed

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Husbands

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

Learning

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Marriage

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Memory

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

Passion

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Present

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Promises

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Satisfaction

He is rich that is satisfied.

Travel and Tourism

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse

Virtue

Virtue is the only true nobility.

Wives

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.