Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

To know where a thing is we must have found it.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.