Now Roger tended to say things after long pauses. When he'd been a clownish sizar at Trinity, this had made him seem not very intelligent; but now that he was a Marquis, and President of the Royal Society, it made him seem exceedingly sober and grave. So after they'd all climbed up the steps to the balcony that led into the part of Whitehall called the King's Apartments, he said: 'A King's mind should never want for the counsel of learned or pious men, just as his body should never want for a bountiful supply of the diverse humours that sustain life and health.'