Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night.
Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.
I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks
All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well.
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.