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

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

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

The living voice is that which sways the soul.

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.