Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.
Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.