So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.
Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.
Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.