The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.
Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.
But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God.
To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.