Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
What a glut of books! Who can read them?
Be not solitary, be not idle
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.