Whilst I Yet Live, Let Me Not

The Unassuming Youth Seeking Instruction With Humility Gains Good Fortune.

Sweet Are The Slumbers Of The Virtuous Man.

If Men Of Eminence Are Exposed To Censure On One Hand, They Are As Much Liable To Flattery On The Other. If They Receive Reproaches Which Are Not Due To Them, They Likewise Receive Praises Which They Do Not Deserve.

Persons In Great Stations Have Seldom Their True Character Drawn Till Several Years After Their Death. Their Personal Friendships And Enmities Must Cease, And The Parties They Were Engaged In Be At An End, Before Their Faults Or Their Virtues Can Have Justice Done Them. When Writers Have The Least Opportunities Of Knowing The Truth, They Are In The Best Disposition To Tell It.

Physic Is, For The Most Part, Only A Substitute For Temperance And Exercise.