I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach while vast oceans of truth...
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off...
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
