There Is No Wish More Natural Than

How Many Valiant Men We Have Seen To Survive Their Own Reputation!

For Truth Itself Has Not The Privilege To Be Spoken At All Times And In All Sorts.

Every One Is Well Or Ill At Ease, According As He Finds Himself! Not He Whom The World Believes, But He Who Believes Himself To Be So, Is Content; And In Him Alone Belief Gives Itself Being And Reality

I Have Seen Books Made Of Things Neither Studied Nor Ever Understood ... The Author Contenting Himself For His Own Part, To Have Cast The Plot And Projected The Design Of It, And By His Industry To Have Bound Up The Fagot Of Unknown Provisions; At Least The Ink And Paper His Own. This May Be Said To Be A Buying Or Borrowing, And Not A Making Or Compiling Of A Book.

There Is Nothing On Which Men Are Commonly More Intent Than On Making A Way For Their Opinions.