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.

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

Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.

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

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

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.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.