Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
Work at it night and day.
It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.