Falk’s Reviews > Pro Archia poeta ; Post reditum in Senatu ; Post reditum ad quirites ; De domo sua ; De haruspicum responsis ; Pro Plancio > Status Update

…I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding [as reading]. [...] This adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. In the home it delights, in the world it hampers not. Through the night-watches, on all our journeying, and in our hours of country ease, it is our unfailing companion. p. 25