We must take our friends as they are. - James Boswell

Every man should keep minutes of whatever he reads. Every circumstance of his studies should be recorded; what books he has consulted; how much of them he has read; at what times; how often the same authors; and what opinions he formed of them, at different periods of his life. Such an account would much illustrate the history of his mind.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.