How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

Let your poem be kept nine years.

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

Plant no other tree before the vine.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.