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

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

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

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

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

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

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.