So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.—Psalm xc. 12.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom.—Proverbs, iv. 7.
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold.—Proverbs, xvi. 16.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not: and it shall be given him.—James, i. 5.
The wise, I here observe,
Are wise towards God, in whose great service still,
More than in that of kings, themselves they serve.
Sir W. Davenant.
He that is of reason’s skill bereft,
And wants the staff of wisdom him to stay,