They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea..

The covetous are always in want..

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence..

Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.].

Nothing is swifter than rumor..

Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger..

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift..

Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for..

Who guides below, and rules above, The great disposer, and the mighty king; Than He none greater, next Him none, That can be, is, or was..

If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice….

That best of blessings, a contented mind..

Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now….

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected..

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out..

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.).

The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it..

The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God..

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also..

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches..

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again..

Drawing is the true test of art..