Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.
To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.
Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.
When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.
The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.