The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.