The Prosperous Can Not Easily Form A

We Must Form Our Minds By Reading Deep Rather Than Wide.

We Excuse Our Sloth Under The Pretext Of Difficulty.

From Writing Rapidly It Does Not Result That One Writes Well, But From Writing Well It Results That One Writes Rapidly.

Minds That Are Stupid And Incapable Of Science Are In The Order Of Nature To Be Regarded As Monsters And Other Extraordinary Phenomena; Minds Of This Sort Are Rare. Hence I Conclude That There Are Great Resources To Be Found In Children, Which Are Suffered To Vanish With Their Years. It Is Evident, Therefore, That It Is Not Of Nature, But Of Our Own Negligence, We Ought To Complain.

To Swear, Except When Necessary, Is Becoming To An Honorable Man. [lat., In Totum Jurare, Nisi Ubi Necesse Est, Gravi Viro Parum Convenit.]