"A foole and his monie be soone at debate
Which after with sorrow repents him too late."
—Tusser's Husbandrie, 1580.
[203:A] "No creature smarts so little as a fool."—Pope.
"A fault denied is twice committed,
And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse for the excuse."—Shakespeare.
[207:A] And again in another passage—
"O that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery."
[208:A] In France they say, "Il est bien avancé qui a bien commencé." In both English and French versions there is a certain ring that helps the memory.
[209:A] "Industrie is a qualitie procedying of Wytte and Experience by whyche a man perceyveth quickely, inuenteth freshely, and counsayleth spedily: wherfore they that be called industrious do most craftely and depely vnderstand in al affayres what is expedient, and by what meanes or wayes they may sonest exployte them. Those thingis in whome other men trauayle these lightley and with facilitie spedeth, and findeth new wayes and meanes to bring to effecte that he deseyreth."—Sir Thomas Elyot.
[212:A] "To dread no eye, and to fear no tongue is the great and blessed prerogative of the innocent life"; "Man is a thinking being, whether he will or not—all he can do, then, is to turn his thoughts aright."