1608 – 1661 • English • Clergyman
All things are difficult before they are easy.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Abused patience turns to fury.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
