Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

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

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.

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.

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