The living voice is that which sways the soul.

Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.

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.

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

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

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

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