Henry Kett quotes:

At the same time that she [nature] solicits him [man] to follow her not only into her open walks, but likewise to explore her secret recesses, she - fails not to reward him with the purest gratifications of the mind, because at every step he takes, new instances of beauty, variety, and perfection are unfolded to his view.

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.