To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

Let your poem be kept nine years.

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

I am doubting what to do.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

By the favour of the heavens