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• Withhold not thy counsel while safety may yet be won; thy wisdom is not to be hidden away like a veiled beauty. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 28)

• Wisdom still needs a tongue to disclose it; no discernment or knowledge or shrewd counsel but waits on the apt word; how else should men be encouraged in well doing? (Ecclesiasticus 4, 29)

• Speak thou never against the known truth; and if thy ignorance has erred, own thy error. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 30)

• Be never ashamed to confess thy faults, nor, for thy fault, put thyself in any man’s power. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 31)

• Wouldst thou defy, and openly, a ruler’s authority? Thou hadst better swim against the stream’s force.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 4, 32)

• Open hand when the word is Take, shut when the word is Give; such be not thine. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 36)

• Wilt thou look round at ill-gotten gains, and tell thyself thou hast enough for all thy needs? Trust me, when vengeance finds thee out, all this shall nothing avail thee. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 1)

• Or wouldst thou make slow work of turning to the Lord, and put it off from day to day? (Ecclesiasticus 5, 8)

• And must thy thoughts still dwell on the ill-gotten gains, that shall nothing avail thee when vengeance finds thee out? (Ecclesiasticus 5, 10)

• Turn not with every wind, nor walk in every way that offers; that sinners do, till their hypocrisy is found out. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 11)

• True answer and wise answer none can give but he who listens patiently, and learns all. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 13)

• speech uttered was ever the wise man’s passport to fame, the fool’s undoing. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 15)