Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

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.

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

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

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.

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