Friendship Demands Attention.

They Set Great Store By Their Gardens . . . Their Studie And Deligence Herein Commeth Not Only Of Pleasure, But Also Of A Certain Strife And Contention . . . Concerning The Trimming, Husbanding, And Furnishing Of Their Gardens; Everye Man Or His Owne Parte.

The Education Of Youth Belongs To The Priests, Yet They Do Not Take So Much Care Of Instructing Them In Letters, As In Forming Their Minds And Manners Aright; They Use All Possible Methods To Infuse, Very Early, Into The Tender And Flexible Minds Of Children, Such Opinions As Are Both Good In Themselves And Will Be Useful To Their Country, For When Deep Impressions Of These Things Are Made At That Age, They Follow Men Through The Whole Course Of Their Lives, And Conduce Much To Preserve The Peace Of The Government, Which Suffers By Nothing More Than By Vices That Rise Out Of Ill Opinions.

It Is Part Of The Business Of Life To Be Affable And Pleasing To Those Whom Either Nature, Chance Or Circumstance Has Made Our Companions.

It Is Possible To Live For The Next Life And Still Be Merry In This.

For Men Use, If They Have An Evil Turn, To Write It In Marble; And Whoso Doth Us A Good Turn We Write It In Dust.