Great Throughts Treasury

"When wealthy, show thy wisdom not to be to wealth a servant, but make wealth serve thee."

"Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame."

"Whosoever offers at verbal translation shall have the misfortune of that young traveller who lost his own language abroad, and brought home no other instead of it."

"You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt."

"Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show We may our ends by our beginnings know."