“Wisdom hid, and treasure hoarded, what value is in either?”
“The fool’s heart is in his mouth, the wise man’s mouth is in his heart.”
“There is no riches above a sound body, and no joy above that of the heart.”
“Whoso regardeth dreams is as one who grasps at his shadow.”
“The evil man cursing Satan is but cursing himself.”
“The bars of Wisdom shall be thy fortress, her chains thy robe of honour.”
About the rendering of xli. 15 there is some doubt, and I give this conjecture:
Better the (ignorant) that hideth his folly, than the (learned) who hideth his wisdom.
In the Bible which belonged to the historian Gibbon, loaned by the late General Meredith Read to the Gibbon exhibition in London, I observed a pencil mark around these sentences in “Wisdom”:
“He that buildeth his house with other men’s money, is like one that gathereth stones for the tomb of his own burial.”