Re ipsa repperi, / Facilitate nihil esse homini melius, neque clementia—I have learned by experience that nothing is more advantageous to a man than complaisance and clemency of temper. Ter.
Re opitulandum non verbis—We should assist by deeds, not in words. Pr.
Re secunda fortis, dubia fugax—In prosperity 45 courageous, in danger timid. Phæd.
Read Homer once, and you can read no more, / For all books else appear so mean, so poor, / Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, / And Homer will be all the books you need. Buckingham.
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Book of Common Prayer.
Read my little fable: / He that runs may read. / Most can raise the flowers now, / For all have got the seed. Tennyson.
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself; if thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than deceitful sweetness. Quarles.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to 50 believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Bacon.
Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use. Prof. Blackie, to young men.
Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read. Johnson.