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.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.

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

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.

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.