Everyman, I will go with thee, and be thy guide. In thy most need to go by thy side.

-Anonymous
c.1485  Knowledge speaks to Everyman. Everyman, l.522^3.

I am a free man, I do not need to copy Petrarch or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, without artifice,Igotowork and earnmy living, my well- being, and my fame.What do Ineedmore? Witha goose quill and a few sheets of paper I mock the universe.

-Aretino, Pietro
Quoted in  J H Plumb (ed)  The Horizon Book of the Renaissance (1961, new edn by Penguin,1982).

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  The Dyer's Hand,'Reading'.

  I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 32:8^9.

Understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me?

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles 8:30^1.

He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low no pride. He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.

-Bunyan,John
  The Pilgrim's Progress, pt.2.

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

-Butler,Joseph
  The Analogy of Religion, introduction.

   It is not, therefore, reason, which is the guide of life, but custom.

-Hume, David
  A  Treatise of Human Nature, abstract.

And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.194^7.

One day he missed his loving bride. She had, the guide informed him later, Been eaten byan alligator. ProfessorTwist could not but smile. 'You mean,' he said,'a crocodile.'

-Nash, (Frederic) Ogden
  The Face Is Familiar,'The Purist'.

None need a guide, by sure attraction led, And strong impulsive gravity of head.

-Pope, Alexander
  The Dunciad, bk.4, l.75^6.