Pliny the Younger

"I contemplate the sort of friend, the sort of man I am now without. He completed his sixty-seventh year, a reasonable age for the sturdiest of us; I acknowledge that. He escaped from an interminable i…"

"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 …"

"By then day had broken everywhere, but here it was still night—no, more than night."

"The living voice is that which sways the soul."

"Nam nec historia debet egredi veritatem, et honeste factis veritas sufficit."

"This expression of ours, "Father of a family."

"The younger Pliny's works, in Latin, at the Latin Library"

"Modestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks upon two legs."