Thomas Fuller

“A good friend is my nearest relation.”

“We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.”

“No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.”

“Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.”

“Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.”

“A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.”

“Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.”

“If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.”

“One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as too low.”

“Great and good are seldom the same man.”

“He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.”

“If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.”

“Great hopes make great men.”

“Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.”

“Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.”

“Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.”

“Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward.”

“That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.”

“Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.”

“God makes, and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.”