About John Heywood: John Heywood is best known as a playwright, he was also active as a musician and composer, though no works survive.
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
Rome was not built in one day.
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.