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.

The living voice is that which sways the soul.

Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

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

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.