Keep thine heart with all diligence, for thereupon hangeth life.

The chief point of wisdom is that thou be willing to obtain wisdom, and before all thy goods to get the understanding.

Get thee wisdom, get thee understanding, forget not the words of my mouth, and shrink not from them.

My son, mark my words, and incline thine ear unto my sayings.

The path of the righteous shineth as the light, and is ever brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

Make much of her and she shall promote thee: Yea, if thou embracest her, she shall bring thee unto honour.

She shall make thee a gracious head, and garnish thee with the crown of glory."

Hear, my son, and receive my words, that the years of thy life may be many.

I will show thee the way of wisdom, and lead thee in the right paths.

Take fast hold of doctrine, let her not go: keep her, for she is thy life.

Come not in the path of the ungodly, and walk not in the way of the wicked.

So that if thou goest therein, there shall no straitness hinder thee: and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.

Eschew it, and go not therein: depart aside, and pass over by it.

For they cannot sleep, except they have first done some mischief: neither take they any rest, except they have first done some harm.

he taught me also, saying, "Let thine heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live.

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and let the lips of slander be far from thee.

But the way of the ungodly is as the darkness, wherein men fall, or they be aware.

Yea I shall give you a good reward, if ye will not forsake my law.

Ponder the path of thy feet: so shall all thy ways be sure.

For they are life unto all those that find them, and health unto all their bodies.

For when I myself was my father's dear son, and tenderly beloved of my mother,

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of robbery.

Let them not depart from thine eyes, keep them even in the midst of thine heart.

Turn not aside, neither to the righthand nor to the left; but withhold thy foot from evil.

Let thine eyes behold the thing that is right, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Hear, O ye children, the fatherly exhortation, and take good heed, that ye may learn wisdom.