1. “Blest be the hour wherein I bought this book;
His studies happy that composed the book,
And the man fortunate that sold the book.”
2. “Calumnies are answered best with silence.”
3. “Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not look for wine.”
4. “Language most shewes a man: speake that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired, and inmost parts of us, and is the Image of the Parent of it, the mind. No glasse renders a mans forme, or likenesse, so true as his speech.”
5. “No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.”
6. “O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks,
Or make the sun forget his motion!”
7. “Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.”
8. “The burnt child dreads the fire.”
9. “The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.”
10. “When I would know thee . . . my thought looks
Upon thy well-made choice of friends and books;
Then do I love thee, and behold thy ends
In making thy friends books, and thy books friends.”
