A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts. |
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts. |
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. |
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. |
Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless. |
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you. |
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. |
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. |
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. |
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! |
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best. |
Having experienced the vexation of marriage, why should she be like the dog who returns to his own vomit, |
Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother! |
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. |
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life. |