Our life fame peceth longer at the end,
And bookes it farther backward doe extend."
Sir Thomas Overbury, The Wife.
"Books should for one of these four ends conduce,—
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use."
Sir John Denham.
"Cease not to learne until thou cease to live;
Think that day lost wherein thou draw'st no letter,
Nor gain'st no lesson, that new grace may give
To make thyself learneder, wiser, better."