God's glowing covenant.—Hosea Ballou.
Rank.—If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.—Madame Swetchine.
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.—Wycherley.
Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man.—Southerne.
Rashness.—Rashness and haste make all things insecure.—Denham.
We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at, and lose by overrunning.—Shakespeare.
Reading.—Read, and refine your appetite; learn to live upon instruction; feast your mind and mortify your flesh; read, and take your nourishment in at your eyes, shut up your mouth, and chew the cud of understanding.—Congreve.
Deep versed in books, but shallow in himself.—Milton.
The love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours of life, which come to every one, for hours of delight.—Montesquieu.
There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy, who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him. He changed his mind, and went to the oars.—Macaulay.