Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.

Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

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

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

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

Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.