Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.
It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.
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.
Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.
The happier time, the quicker it passes
They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.