The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

It always seems impossible until its done.

It always seems impossible until its done.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least
interest to a serious and read more

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least
interest to a serious and studious mood--sex and the dead.

Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.

Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself read more

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

You are in some brown study.

You are in some brown study.

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently

So study evermore is overshot.
While it doth study to have what it would,
It doth forget read more

So study evermore is overshot.
While it doth study to have what it would,
It doth forget to do the thing it should;
And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,
'Tis won as towns with fire; so won, so lost.

Me therefore studious of laborious ease.

Me therefore studious of laborious ease.