Study Depends On The Goodwill Of The

Men Of Quality Are In The Wrong To Undervalue, As They Often Do, The Practise Of A Fair And Quick Hand In Writing; For It Is No Immaterial Accomplishment.

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

Verse Satire Indeed Is Entirely Our Own.

Consequently The Student Who Is Devoid Of Talent Will Derive No More Profit From This Work Than Barren Soil From A Treatise On Agriculture.

The Soul Languishing In Obscurity Contracts A Kind Of Rust, Or Abandons Itself To The Chimera Of Presumption; For It Is Natural For It To Acquire Something, Even When Separated From Any One.