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

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.

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.

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

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

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.