Quadrains of Pibrac, translated by Joshua Sylvester.
"Who readeth much and never meditates,
Is like a greedy eater of much food,
Who so surcloyes his stomach with his cates,
That commonly they do him little good."
Ibid.
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."—Bacon's Essays—Of Studies.
"Calm let me live, and every care beguile,—
Hold converse with the great of every time,
The learn'd of ev'ry class, the good of ev'ry clime."