Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.
Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.
In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.