While We Ponder When To Begin, It

For The Mind Is All The Easier To Teach Before It Is Set.

When Defeat Is Inevitable, It Is Wisest To Yield.

Too Exact, And Studious Of Similitude Rather Than Of Beauty. [lat., Nimis In Veritate, Et Similitudinis Quam Pulchritudinis Amantior.]

Though Ambition In Itself Is A Vice, Yet It Is Often The Parent Of Virtues. [lat., Licet Ipsa Vitium Sit Ambitio, Frequenter Tamen Causa Virtutem Est.]

That Which Prematurely Arrives At Perfection Soon Perishes.