"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.