However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

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

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

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

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.

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