Dr. Kettle was wont to say that Seneca writes as a Boare does pisse, scilicet by jirkes. - John Aubrey

He left an estate of eleaven thousand pounds per annum. Sir John Danvers, who knew him, told me that he had heard one say to him, reflecting on his great scraping of wealth, that his sonnes would spend his Estate faster than he gott it; he replyed, They cannot take more delight in the spending of it than I did in the getting of it.

He was a shiftless person, roving and magotie-headed, and sometimes little better than crased.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more then his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men, he should have knowne no more than other men.