Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

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.

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit