Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.
He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.
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.
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.