Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. - John Denham

But wealth is crime enough to him that's poor.

When any great design thou dost intend,
Think of the means, the manner, and the end.

I conceive it is a vulgar error in translating poets, to affect being fidus interpres... [for] poetry is of so subtile a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate; and if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum, there being certain graces and happinesses peculiar to every language, which give life and energy to the words... therefore if Virgil must needs speak English, it were fit he should speak not only as a man of this nation, but as man of this age.