There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death..

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work..

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity..

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing..

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment..

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions..

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head..

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise..

The happier time, the quicker it passes.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit.

Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt..

Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people..

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas.

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied..

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye..

The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautiou….

Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea..

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us….

Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some mo….

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial..

It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one canno….