The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.