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

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 money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

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

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

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

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