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

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

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

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

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.

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

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.