For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.