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

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

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

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

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

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.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.