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.

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.

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

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