O You Virtuous Owle, The Wise Minerva's

It Is Manifest That All Government Of Action Is To Be Gotten By Knowledge, And Knowledge Best, By Gathering Many Knowledges, Which Is Reading.

Solitude, The Sly Enemy That Doth Separate A Man From Well-doing.

Remember That In All Miseries Lamenting Becomes Fools, And Action, Wise Folk.

There Needs Not Strength To Be Added To Inviolate Chastity; The Excellency Of The Mind Makes The Body Impregnable.

Every Base Occupation Makes One Sharp In Its Practice, And Dull In Every Other.