Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

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

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.

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

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

The living voice is that which sways the soul.