JAMES HOWELL

Respect a man, he will do it the more.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

This life at best is but an inn, And we the passengers.

All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

After rain comes fair weather.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

We learn by teaching.

Love is the life of friendship.

Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.

The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.

Fly and you will catch the swallow.