Thomas Fuller

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

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

“'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.”

“He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.”

“Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.”

“The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.”

“We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.”

“Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.”

“Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.”

“A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.”

“Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.”

“Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.”

“A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!”

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

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

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

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”

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

“Health is not valued till sickness comes.”

“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.”