Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.

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.

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

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

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved 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.