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

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.

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

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

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

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.

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