Plant no other tree before the vine.
No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.
The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.