Note, 1. He is to be reckoned an intelligent man that not only has
wisdom, but has it ready when he has occasion for it. He lays his
wisdom before him, as his card and compass which he steers by, has his
eye always upon it, as he that writes has on his copy; and then he has
it before him; it is not to seek, but still at hand. 2. He that has a
giddy head, a roving rambling fancy, will never be fit for any solid
business. He is a fool, and good for nothing, whose eyes are in the
ends of the earth, here, and there and every where, any where but where
they should be, who cannot fix his thoughts to one subject nor pursue
any one purpose with any thing of steadiness. When his mind should be
applied to his study and business it is filled with a thousand things
foreign and impertinent.