While We Ponder When To Begin, It

Nature Herself Has Never Attempted To Effect Great Changes Rapidly.

The Mind Is Exercised By The Variety And Multiplicity Of The Subject Matter, While The Character Is Moulded By The Contemplation Of Virtue And Vice.

Too Exact, And Studious Of Similitude Rather Than Of Beauty. [lat., Nimis In Veritate, Et Similitudinis Quam Pulchritudinis Amantior.]

When Defeat Is Inevitable, It Is Wisest To Yield.

For The Mind Is All The Easier To Teach Before It Is Set.