Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.
The proof of gold is fire.
The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.
In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.