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I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.
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_Arcadia_. Book i.
There is no man suddenly either excellently good, or extremely evil.
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They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
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THOMAS HOBBES. 1588-1679.
_The Leviathan_.
Part i. Chap. 4.
For Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.  
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FRANCIS BACON. 1561-1626.
Essay viii. _Of Marriage and Single Life_.
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Essay 1. _Of Studies_.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,...   Hobbes, Thomas

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