Thomas Fuller

"Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building."

"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."

"'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship."

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

"Abused patience turns to fury."

"All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer."

"All things are difficult before they are easy."

"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul."

"Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune."

"Better be alone than in bad company."

"Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye."

"Despair gives courage to a coward."

"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers."

"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf."

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

"Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched."

"Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune."

"One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low."

"The more wit the less courage."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart."