We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

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