Anger is a short madness.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?