Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.
However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?
Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.
O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.
God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.