Poets wish to profit or to please.
Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.