Envy Is Ever Joined With The Comparing

Histories Make Men Wise; Poets, Witty; The Mathematics, Subtle; Natural Philosophy, Deep; Moral, Grave; Logic And Rhetoric, Able To Contend.

Important Families Are Like Potatoes. The Best Parts Are Underground.

Natural Abilities Are Like Natural Plants, That Need Pruning By Study; And Studies Themselves Do Give Forth Directions Too Much At Large, Except They Be Bounded In By Experience.

Base And Crafty Cowards Are Like The Arrow That Flieth In The Dark.

So That Every Wand Or Staff Of Empire Is Forsooth Curved At Top.