Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.
And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all.
Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.