There is always something new out of Africa.

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

Human nature craves novelty.

The happier the moment the shorter.

How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

The first (barbers) that entered Italy came out of Sicily and it was in the 454 yeare after the foundation of Rome. Brought in they were by P. Ticinius Mena as Verra doth report for before that time they never cut their hair. The first that was shaven every day was Scipio Africanus, and after cometh Augustus the Emperor who evermore used the razor.

Our civilization depends largely on paper.