From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.