Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.