Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.

I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation

A lighthouse is more useful than a church.