Those Who Have Compared Our Life To

And As Hearbes And Trees Are Bettered And Fortified By Being Transplanted, So Formes Of Speach Are Embellished And Graced By Variation.... As In Our Ordinary Language, We Shall Sometimes Meete With Excellent Phrases, And Quaint Metaphors, Whose Blithnesse Fadeth Through Age, And Colour Is Tarnish By To Common Using Them.

Water, Earth, Air, Fire, And The Other Parts Of This Structure Of Mine Are No More Instruments Of Your Life Than Instruments Of Your Death. Why Do You Fear Your Last Day? It Contributes No More To Your Death Than Each Of The Others. The Last Step Does Not Cause The Fatigue, But Reveals It. All Days Travel Toward Death, The Last One Reaches It.

All We Do Is To Look After The Opinions And Learning Of Others: We Ought To Make Them Our Own.

Let [children] Be Able To Do All Things, And Love To Do Only The Good.

Learned We May Be With Another Man's Learning: We Can Only Be Wise With Wisdom Of Our Own.