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.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

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.

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.

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

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