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

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..

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..

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console..

Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love..

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….

Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms..

Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things..