Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.