Pliny

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

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

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.

His only fault is that he has no fault.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written in writing what deserves to be read and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

From the end spring new beginnings.

There is always something new out of Africa.