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

Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.

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.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.

It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.