Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.
Books have their destinies.
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.