Be Not Solitary, Be Not Idle

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.

No Rule Is So General, Which Admits Not Some Exception.

If You Like Not My Writing, Go Read Something Else.

Worldly Wealth Is The Devil's Bait; And Those Whose Minds Feed Upon Riches Recede, In General, From Real Happiness, In Proportion As Their Stores Increase, As The Moon, When She Is Fullest, Is Farthest From The Sun.