Amiability shines by its own light..

If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me..

A poem is like a painting..

Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling..

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?.

Don't waste the opportunity..

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living..

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea..

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment..

Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.].

From the egg to the apple..

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil..

We are all gathered to the same fold..

One cannot know everything..

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness..

Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods. [Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.].

Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush..

Wisdom at times is found in folly..

Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.].

In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war..

When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear..