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

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.