How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.
A bellyful is a bellyful.
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
No clock is more regular than the belly.
It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.