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

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

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

Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

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