George Herbert
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.Collection: Fathers
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.Collection: Motivational
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.Collection: Forgiveness
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.Collection: Faith
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.Collection: Love
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.Collection: Humor
Good words are worth much, and cost little.Collection: Communication
Night is the mother of counsels.Collection: Dreams
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.Collection: Legal
None knows the weight of another's burden.Collection: Wisdom
Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.Collection: Health
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.Collection: Best
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.Collection: Legal
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.Collection: Peace
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.Collection: Great
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.Collection: Learning
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.Collection: Truth
Living well is the best revenge.Collection: Best
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.Collection: Friendship
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.Collection: Strength
Life is half spent before we know what it is.Collection: Life
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
The eyes have one language everywhere.
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
Be thrifty, but not covetous.
There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Never was a miser a brave soul.
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
The shortest answer is doing.
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
Better never begin than never make an end.
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
He hath no leisure who useth it not.
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
The offender never pardons.
The resolved mind hath no cares.
Spend not on hopes.