A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.

Every picture tells a story.

Every picture tells a story.

Great strokes make not sweete musick.

Great strokes make not sweete musick.

The hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the
greater hides the less.

The hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the
greater hides the less.

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one
with kindness.

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one
with kindness.

Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.

Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.

E'en his failings leaned to virtue's side.

E'en his failings leaned to virtue's side.