In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

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.

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

A man of refined taste and judgment.

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

Better to accept whatever happens.