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

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

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

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

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

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.