We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.

Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.

Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.