Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

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'.

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

The living voice is that which sways the soul.