That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

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

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.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

The living voice is that which sways the soul.

Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.

Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.