Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.
Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.