You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.