The happier time, the quicker it passes

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

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

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.