Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.

Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden