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• He injures himself, that is ungovernable in rage; every advantage he seizes does but injure him the more.✻ (Proverbs 19, 19)

• Prudent counsel is a well buried deep in man’s heart; but the wise know how to draw from it. (Proverbs 20, 5)

• Many there are that pass for kindly souls, but a faithful friend is hard to come by. (Proverbs 20, 6)

• Gold thou mayst have in abundance, and jewels a many, but the finest ware of all is wise speech. (Proverbs 20, 15)

• Counsel is the sure buttress of determination; wars must ever be won by statecraft. (Proverbs 20, 18)

• His own path man scans, and nothing sees amiss, but the divine balance weighs our thoughts. (Proverbs 21, 2)

• Crooked is man’s course, and belies his own nature, but pure souls there are whose life runs true. (Proverbs 21, 8)

• I know one, Sir Reckless is the name of him, that is all proud airs, and does nothing but in over-bearing scorn. (Proverbs 21, 24)

• The ill-doer has eyes for nothing but his wanton designs; the upright scans well his path. (Proverbs 21, 29)

• well armed thy horse may be on the eve of battle, but the Lord sends victory. (Proverbs 21, 31)

• Wouldst thou but give heed, and listen to wise counsels, take these my warnings to heart! (Proverbs 22, 17)

• Abstracted he sits, like soothsayer brooding over false dreams; Eat and drink, he tells thee, but his mind is far away. (Proverbs 23, 7)