Thomas Fuller

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

He that fears your presence will hate you absence.

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
Thomas Fuller - Gnomologia, 1732
He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

A good garden may have some weeds.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.

He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

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

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

If it were not for hope, the heart would break.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.

- Thomas Fuller