A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
John Heywood

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
King Solomon

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Edmund Spenser

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Michel de Montaigne

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
Philip Sidney

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
Thomas Hobbes

The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Hugh Latimer