Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

Hope is a working-man's dream.