Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.