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

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

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 to produce something worth being written and heard.

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

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

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

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