Ego mundi civis esse cupio, communis omnium, vel peregrinus magis. - Erasmus

In regione caecorum rex est luscus / In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king

The desire to write grows with writing.

Next, let no one be so fond as to imagine, that I should so far stint my invention to the method of other pleaders, as first to define, and then divide my subject, i.e., myself. For it is equally hazardous to attempt the crowding her within the narrow limits of a definition, whose nature is of so diffusive an extent, or to mangle and disjoin that, to the adoration whereof all nations unitedly concur.