Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.
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.
He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.
Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.
The living voice is that which sways the soul.
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.