[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
Be not solitary, be not idle
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.
If you like not my writing, go read something else.