We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.