It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.
It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.