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

Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

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.

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

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

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.