Thomas Fuller

“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.”

“He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.”

“Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.”

“Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.”

“A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.”

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

“Despair gives courage to a coward.”

“He that hopes no good fears no ill.”

“Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.”

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

“A good garden may have some weeds.”

“Great hopes make great men.”

“All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.”

“Better be alone than in bad company.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.”

“Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.”

“A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.”

“Change of weather is the discourse of fools.”