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

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

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.

Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.

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