Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.

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.

Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.

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

The happier time, the quicker it passes

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.