“A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.”

Smooth words in place of gifts.

Badly gotten, badly spent.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.

It is difficult to fly without wings.

Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

Worthy things happen to the worthy.

Conquered, we conquer.

Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

A man with courage has every blessing.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

It is best to know the worst at once.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

It is easy to rule over the good.

It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.