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

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.

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.

Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.

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.