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.

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

The living voice is that which sways the soul.

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

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'.