When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

Don't waste the opportunity.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.

Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.