Occupation: Writer Birth: 1594 Death: 1666
After rain comes fair weather..
Respect a man, he will do the more..
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things..
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it..
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three..
Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to u….
Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro..
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people..
French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth ….
God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies..
Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee..
Little sins are pioneers of hell..
Feed sparingly and defy the physician..
All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today..
Words and works eat not at one table..
God comes at last when we think he is farthest off..
This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers..