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The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he.

Book iv. Ch. 24.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. 1547-1616.

Every one is the son of his own works.

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Ch. 20. I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it. Ibid. Ch. 23.

Every one is as God made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. Part ii. Ch. 4.

Now blessings light on him that first invented sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.

Part ii. Ch. 67.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

The Little Gypsy. (La Gitanilla.)

THOMAS HOBBES. 1588-1679.

For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.

The Leviathan. Part i. Ch. 4.

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586.

He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. The Defence of Poesy.

I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.

Ibid..

There is no man suddenly either excellently good, or extremely evil.*

Arcadia. Book i.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

Ibid.

RICHARD HOOKER. 1553-1600.

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power. Ecclesiastical Polity. Book i.

There is a method in man's wickedness,

It grows up by degrees.

BEAUMONT and Fletcher.

A King and no King. Act v. Sc. 4.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Essay viii. Of Marriage and Single Life. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Essay 1. Of Studies.

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

Ibid.

Histories make men wise, poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Ibid.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.

The Elements of the Com. Law of Eng. Preface. Knowledge is power. Nam et ipsa scientia Meditationes Sacra. De Hæresibus.

potestas est.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

Dedication to the Essays. Ed. 1625.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon

the vantage-ground of truth.

Of Truth.

When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labor what to speak, as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.

Letter of Expostulation to Coke. The sun though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Advancement of Learning. Book ii. Ch. 2.

SIR EDWARD COKE. 1651-1632.

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium.*

Third Institute. Page 162.

The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Semayne's Case, 5 Rep. 91. They (corporations) cannot commit trespass nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.

Case of Sutton's Hospital, 10 Rep. p. 32.

* Quoted from the Pandects, Lib. ii. tit. iv. De in Jus vocando.

IZAAK WALTON. 1593-1683.

Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be born SO. The Complete Angler. Part i. Ch. 1.

We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did : and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. Ibid. Part i. Ch. 6.

Thus use your frog: put your hook, I mean the arming wire, through his mouth, and out at his gills, and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to the arming wire of your hook, or tie the frog's leg above the upper joint to the armed wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him.

Ibid.

JOHN MILTON. 1608-1674.

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him. The Reason of Church Government. Book ii.