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

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

The happier time, the quicker it passes

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

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

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

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

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

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

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

Time is now. Live a fuller life.

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

I assume I don't need an introduction.

Actually, I'm 130, but 125 is what I put on my resume, because that's what I look like I weigh.

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.

In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.

Goodbye don't mean gone.

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on.

Remember who you are and whose you are.