Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

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

Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

Anger is a momentary madness.

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

The covetous are always in want.