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

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

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

The living voice is that which sways the soul.

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.

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.