Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

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.

Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

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

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

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