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.

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.

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

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

The happier time, the quicker it passes

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.

Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.