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.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.

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

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas